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3 years, 3 months ago

What's the best network monitoring software/tool?

I work at a large campus with many servers and switches from different vendors.  We have 2 internet connections, T1 and microwave.  Our main campus has many buildings joined by fiber and each of these has one or more switch and/or server in it as well.  We also have 2 branch locations which are connected over the internet with a vpn connection and we may have another going online in the next month utilizing a point-to-point connection.

What I want is a solution that aggregates the condition of all of our systems and displays the status in a meaningful way.  And it should be able to email/text the technicians when there is a problem.
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robbrown | 3 years, 3 months ago
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snmp
"SNMP is used in network management systems to monitor network-attached devices for conditions that warrant administrative attention. It consists of a set of standards for network management, including an application layer protocol, a database schema, and a set of data objects."

All of the devices that you describe could be monitored with SNMP enabled and software from this list:
http://www.monitortools.com/snmp/

OpManage is particularly good:
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/opmanager/index.html?snmpmtr

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robbrown | 3 years, 3 months ago Report

Sweet! Glad I could help.

I'm Canadian... they're "Laurier's" up here - lol

Thanks Jgraves.

Oh, check out Essential SNMP - it's a book by Oreilly. It's very good.

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prabhdeep | 1 year, 10 months ago
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SolarWinds orion Network Monitor tool makes easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues with your dynamic network.
http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/info.aspx
It Monitors and analyzes real-time, in-depth, network performance statistics for routers, switches, wireless access points, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices.

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ebuford | 3 years, 3 months ago
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Check out PacketTrap Networks (www.PacketTrap.com) - new release provides traffic analysis for any network device even if it isn’t flow-enabled. Also, SNMP enablement, configuration backup, VoIP and IP SLA monitoring - all in a browser based solution.

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riaz1001 | 1 year, 4 months ago
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There are some programs for the network monitoring but I think Linux is best.
Server management

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gxam | 3 years, 3 months ago
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Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) and OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org) both do this. I find OpenNMS to be a bit heavy for my needs so I just use Nagios. If you need to do graphing of bandwidth usage and the like, you might want to look at Cacti (http://www.cacti.net)

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ashed | 3 years, 3 months ago
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I would recommend OpManager too. (www.opmanager.com). You can see network maps and integrate Google maps too.

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