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On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 11:36 -0500, James M. Cook wrote: |
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> On Thursday 22 December 2005 8:41 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> > Hi All, |
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> > Just want to see if anyone has any good info to share. |
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> I've evaluated all the packages you've listed but had completely forgotten |
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> about ntop (which I'm playing with now, fantastic). |
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With some additional overhead. There is a perl script to export the data |
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to SQL but I've yet to play with it. (but the downside is that it's not |
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supported and thus, I may be knocking on a dead door when I see trouble) |
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> I'm not sure any of them |
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> are going to give you what you want. |
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Can't have my cake and eat it too? :-( |
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> I didn't see any information about Traffic Flow Analysis on argus' website, do |
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> you have that URL? |
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It should be on argus' website. I'm sure it's not a figment of my |
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imagination. |
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> opennms - nice, but uses tomcat since it's java based. Seemed to generate the |
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> heaviest load on the server. Not knowing a whole lot about tomcat and using |
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> tomcat4, which is not available in portage, made setup a little tricky for |
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> me. Didn't see any graphing capabilities either. |
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You actually installed it? I know of one company exinda (IIRC) that uses |
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java for it's traffic analysis. Not only is it slow, it's also unable to |
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do the stuffs I want. |
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> jffnms - this was my choice for a while. Then I tried to add a new OID and |
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> couldn't figure it out. I found the montoring interface was good but |
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Based on list archives, it used to be in portage, but it was taken out. |
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> argus - this is my new choice. I like the simple web interface and the |
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> configuration is pretty straightforward. I'm actually creating a script to |
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> convert my old monitoring sw config to argus. Working at an ASP requires |
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> monitoring website performance which appears to be the most straightforward |
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> with argus. The graphs aren't as good as some other packages. |
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Again, argus doesn't support putting data into a SQL table. |
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> zabbix - midas - cacti with the threshold plugin. |
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I tried cacti before, but since I wasn't able to get SNMP to work with |
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my NIC (I tried it out on a laptop) I just gave up. |
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> It seems to me that none of these packages are perfect fits. |
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Ditto |
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> My main issue is there is not web interface to |
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> update the config which is available in most of the others. This should only |
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> become an issue when I start to have others maintain the system. :) |
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That's why there's those 4am calls for manual intervention. |
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I'll be frank, what I want is for a way to determine top talkers and |
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then use that data (with the IP) and then use TC (traffic control) rules |
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to restrict/handicap it's bandwidth. Right now, what I'm doing is manual |
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control and I can't keep up with the 4am nights just to restrict some |
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IPs. |
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Do you have any comment/info on how/what's best to do those? Do you also |
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know if the way ntop stores it's data, does it also store the IP |
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addreses in the RRD Database as well? What I need is to just get the top |
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talkers and that would be great. Whipping up a perl/shell script via |
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cron to do the dirty work for me. |
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Thanks |
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