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Hi Guys, |
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Sounds like a job for ipaudit. |
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http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net/ipaudit-web/ |
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I didn't like ipaudit-web so I just used ipaudit it has a rather neat |
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direct dump into mysql. |
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well worth considering. |
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Wayne |
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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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>>What I want: (not necessary host availability/polling) |
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>>Network monitoring/network traffic analyser which is something like ntop |
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>>which shows IP traffic in (from where) and out (to where) as well as top |
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>>talkers, top ports etc. This is basically to determine whats happening |
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>>with my network and who's been hogging the bandwidth etc. (time for some |
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>>wrist slapping!!) |
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>>And preferably it logs into a Mysql/Postgressql database which can be |
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>>later dissected for analysis. |
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>>I've looked at opennms - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51441 |
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>>which seems to be able to do it. |
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>>I've also looked at jffnms, (which used to be in portage? searched |
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>>through the archives and it seems it was previously) but it seems to |
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>>only be able to look at host/server availability. |
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>>Looked at argus, it seems to have the features for Traffic Flow Analysis |
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>>but it does not support (AFAICT) for logging into a DB.(The FAQ states |
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>>answer is coming) |
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>>Zabbix is another package but seems like it too provides for |
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>>client/server availability etc. Doesn't do much for my needs. |
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>>I initially looked at ntop, then found out that it no longer uses a SQL |
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>>database for it's backend data collection, it now uses rrdtool. I've got |
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>>some stupid question, I understand that RRDtool is a good thing since |
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>>it's like a never growing DB, but frankly, just how many days/years of |
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>>data can it hold? What's the limit etc? I don't seem to be able to |
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>>locate a FAQ about that one particular point. |
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>>Appreciate some comments. |
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>>Thanks |
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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). I'm not sure any of them |
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>are going to give you what you want. |
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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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>Here's what I found for each: |
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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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>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 you |
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>cannot reliably use the back button. The admin interface is a little |
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>confusing. Documentation is sparse in many areas and development appears to |
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>have stopped. |
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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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>zabbix - I liked the newer version of this software looks (I think 1.1b2 was |
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>the version) with it's revamped web frontend. I didn't care for installing |
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>remote agents on all my servers and administration seemed confusing to me. |
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>I've also tried midas (which appears to be dead and similar to zabbix) and |
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>cacti with the threshold plugin. I really like cacti but didn't care for the |
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>threshold plugin. It felt like NMS functionality was being bolted on top of |
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>cacti. It works but not for my purposes. |
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>It seems to me that none of these packages are perfect fits. For me argus |
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>seems have come the closest. 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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>In the end I'll probably end up using a few pieces of software to address my |
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>monitoring needs. |
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>James |
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