monitoring the network

[Brie Gordon]

Cacti and Nagios are great tools.
You might want to look into Groundwork (aka GWMOS) which integrates
Nagios and does decent graphing.
Denika is wonderful but it all does depend on what you are looking to
monitor, more specifically.

2007/9/5, Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net>:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Oscar Veloz wrote:
> > Can anyone think of a tool or collection of (open source) that one might
> > effectively use to monitor an enterprise network?
>
>     It depends on what you mean by 'monitoring'.
>
>     - cacti is good at watching traffic in use and graphing it (SNMP)
>     - Nagios is good at letting you know when things break (also SNMP)
>     - tcpdump (and it's GUI counterpart) can give you forensic data
>     - lots of other tools, like Scotty/TkIned exist, too.
>
>     Maybe you want to look at Freshmeat.net?
>
> - --
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
>  Evansville, IN                              http://Fahrlander.net/brian
>  ICQ: 5119262                         AOL/Yahoo/GoogleTalk: WheelDweller
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFG3t7l6PLtRzZbdhYRApmEAJ4vYmFRXb0lC2oZclJCeZXq/xEuBACeK2jH
> VdZG0FDuk6kTMRheTSNz5ac=
> =Sctp
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>


-- 
Brie Gordon



"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."

--Hyman G Rickover