Monitoring Tool

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Hi
I have been tasked to develop a good network for a Bank and i have also been
tasked to get a good monitoring tool for the Bank's local network and
Service providers network. i would like to ask the community
to help recommend the best tool out there that can help me do this

Joshua

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Yeah I would not mind having those xtra features like IDS and IPS

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http://www.cacti.net/

with

http://www.network-weathermap.com/

among other plugins found:

http://docs.cacti.net/plugins

can be a very good first step, and its free, though it has a lower resolution then some minute/minute is often all that's needed for management types, not to mention its relatively easy.

~J

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Joshua William Klubi wrote:

I have been tasked to develop a good network for a Bank and i have also been
tasked to get a good monitoring tool for the Bank's local network and
Service providers network. i would like to ask the community
to help recommend the best tool out there that can help me do this

As others pointed out, without additional information it is hard to give you any recommendation.

The usual suspects in the open source world would be nagios, cacti, mrtg, netflow, ... in case you want to have something to check it out.

Best would be you just write a list down on what data or monitoring you really need.

cheers,
Thorsten

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I like Zenoss. It's like nagios and cacti. It also does syslog, and
the enterprise version does netflows as well.

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Thorsten Dahm <t.dahm@resolution.de> writes:

The usual suspects in the open source world would be nagios, cacti,
mrtg, netflow, ...

There is no tool called netflow. :wink: To collect and analyze netflow
data I'd recommend nfdump.sf.net and nfsen.sf.net as open source
solution.

Jens

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Joshua William Klubi (joshua.klubi) writes:

Hi
I have been tasked to develop a good network for a Bank and i have also been
tasked to get a good monitoring tool for the Bank's local network and
Service providers network. i would like to ask the community
to help recommend the best tool out there that can help me do this

  Hi Joshua,

  What kind of monitoring are we talking about ? Network services,
  performance, traffic, latency, ... ?

  You might want to take a look at some popular Open Source tools, such as:

  http://www.nagios.org/
  http://www.zabbix.com/
  http://www.hyperic.com/
  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Main_Page
  http://www.cacti.net/
  SmokePing - About SmokePing

  ... to get an idea of what's possible.

  Cheers,
  Phil

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Don't forget Opsview

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thnx

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Jens Link wrote:

Thorsten Dahm <t.dahm@resolution.de> writes:

The usual suspects in the open source world would be nagios, cacti,
mrtg, netflow, ...

There is no tool called netflow. :wink:

of course, the German guy has to complain again. :slight_smile:

cheers,
Thorsten

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Who is the German guy