Procurve network backbone saturation

[meastaugh1]

Hi,

Can someone advise the best way to determine the level of saturation on links, particularly backbone links?

Is simply viewing the figures on the device (telnet/web) sufficient? Does the basic (free) procurve manager software make it easier to monitor utilisation at peak periods?

Thanks

[ChrisH]

You can use something like MRTG to keep track of traffic.

[meastaugh1]

Great! Pretty graphs, just what I wanted. Thanks.

[ChrisH]

Theres also CACTI that people seem to be migrating from MRTG to use. I havent tried either but I know Ric is using MRTG. While your in the monitoring mood look into Nagios as well you can monitor alsorts of things with that. This I do have implemented.

[Geoff]

Cacti is a PHP frontend that basically automates all the boring stuff you'd normally setup manually with MRTG.