RE: {bb} Network monitoring appliance for BigBrother?

["PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson@mandtbank.com>]

$200 is pretty tight.  $1000 maybe...

The 24seven3 uses mrtg, and there are two scripts on deadcat that 
can integrate MRTG/RRDTool into BB.  Since the tedious work of 
collecting the data is complete, you'd only need to write a script 
to compile all that information into something BB can interpret...

Paul

>>> Ralf.Strandell@silja.com 05/30/05 8:50 AM >>>
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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