RE: {bb} Network monitoring appliance for BigBrother?

[Ralf.Strandell@silja.com]

I was thinking of a $200 centrally managed device that just sits there
counting MB/sec per protocol/port and sending an SNMP trap when there is too
much traffic or something strange happens. Then one could connect to the box
using a browser (or use a management station) to check the problem more
accurately. I want a box that does to network monitoring what Axis did to
print servers.

Big Brother can connect to routers using SNMP already, read counters,
remember the results from the previous poll, convert the interval to
seconds, do the octets/time division, store the result to a database, do
some heuristics, warn if needed and so on... The time required to manage
such a system, however, grows exponentially. And if I call to Juniper or
Cisco, then I'll get a solution, but an $$$$$$ solution.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:pwilliamson@mandtbank.com]
> Sent: 30. toukokuuta 2005 14:53
> To: bb@bb4.com; Ralf.Strandell@silja.com
> Subject: Re: {bb} Network monitoring appliance for BigBrother?
> 
> 
> Ralf,
> 
> You say you need something to collect basic information, but something
> 
> that polls is out of the question.  Sounds contradictory...
> 
> If you don't exactly mean that, there are two devices I  know of which
> 
> sort of accomplish just going on the network and will almost
> self-configure 
> themselves:
> 
> NetMRI - http://www.netcordia.com/products/netmri.html 
> 24Seven3 -
> http://www.shatterit.com/remote_management/index.php?FILE=24SevenCube
> 
> 
> I have no idea if they integrate into BB, but they both use other 
> FOSS tools and the integration probably wouldn't be all 
> that hard to accomplish.
> 
> Paul
> 
> >>> Ralf.Strandell@silja.com 05/30/05 5:57 AM >>>
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for an affordable network monitoring appliance that can
> collect
> basic network traffic statistics (bandwidth usage per
> protocol/port/source/destination) and that works nicely together with
> BigBrother. Any ideas? With web management and graphical trends,
> please. It
> would also need to be capable of identifying the most active peers.
> 
> Polling routers and keeping track of the incremental octet counters is
> out
> of the question. I need to implement this on large scale in a large
> and
> complex enterprise network.
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