Network monitoring tool

[nicholab]

How do you monitor your network and which network monitoring tool do you use?

[localzuk]

Nagios and Cacti for network traffic, server resource and downtime monitoring. Intellipool Network Monitor for environment monitoring - but I am going to look at merging this in with nagios and cacti.

[Ric_]

Another vote for Nagios... look at the wiki for how to set it up!

[Geoff]

Nagios and cacti here also. Plus I have ntop on my firewall. I also have a laptop with wireshark + netstumbler.

[powdarrmonkey]

Nagios, and I'm just working on a redundant installation on another machine elsewhere in the building, because our power is so flaky. Otherwise if the first box cuts out, I don't know about it.

 

Edit: and MRTG for routers, with the data dropped into Nagios.

[plexer]

Nagios here, wireshark for protocol analysis, netstumbler and a wi-spy for wireless.

 

Ben

[rush_tech]

We have just started using Nagios, is cacti easy to use with nagios?

 

cheers

linux neebie

[budgester]

Another vote for nagios here.

[ZeroHour]

3com Network Supervisor is one - free but registration required (http://www.3com.com/tns/)

Quest Big Brother - free version (http://www.bb4.org/download.html)

Quest Spotlight - free (http://www.quest.com/spotlight-on-windows/)

 

As a few...

[SpuffMonkey]

Nagios and Cacti - I think Cacti is a brill bit of kit - and has helped identify several network issues.

[mylesbaldwin]

Hi All,

I have just loaded spiceworks for systems monitoring /reporting. Looks pretty powerfull and is free. Anyone with experience of this software?

[netadmin]

I have just started using Spiceworks. Seems to work well, no problems yet.