Monitoring tools?

[Andrew White]

Hello,

I'm using Netflow and Solarwinds Orion NPM at work to monitor routers and servers and ports on switches, one of the tools that is great is the real-time bandwidth gauge tool which lets me see how much bandwidth a port is using on a server or router via SNMP, does anyone know of a free tool that can do this or recommend any other tools that may be of use that you use that are free so I can use on my home lab?

Thanks

[John Blakley]

Andrew,

MRTG is an excellent tool for this:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Or if you're wanting more of a website feel, you can use Cacti that also incorporates MRTG:

http://www.cacti.net/

HTH,
John

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[Andrew White]

Thanks guys, I will check these out.  How oftern they update there stats?

I'm after a way to show what the bandwidth of a port on a router or switch is doing evey 5 seconds?

Solarwinds do one as part of their Engineer Tools, but it costs a lot of money.

Thanks

[johnlloyd_13]

Hi,

I use PRTG on my home lab. I believe it can monitor around 5 devices on the free version.

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[Don Jacob]

You could use SolarWinds Free Real-Time NetFlow Analyzer - it is a standa lone free module and does not need NPM. Could be ideal for your lab use - is free and you are already familiar with us.

If you want to explore further, there are free offerrings from Plixer Scrutinizer, ManageEngine NetFlow, etc.

Regards,
Don Thomas Jacob

Head Geek @ SolarWinds

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[anirudh.wna]

i think mrtg or cacti are one of the best ones..

[kcsureshbabu]

MRTG is best