Monitoring and Utilization

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Greetings!
My new employer has requested that I start a network study to see how much and what traffic is flowing to where from where and when. I know I can use wireshark for raw packet traffic but I was looking at something like MRTG to graph out network. For monitoring I was looking at Nagios. Time is as big of a deal as money. We are trying to do this for little or no cost. This is going to go directly to my manager so we can know how much we need to update are bandwidth. Any suggestions?
Found this list as well:
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html[/FONT]
My new employer has requested that I start a network study to see how much and what traffic is flowing to where from where and when. I know I can use wireshark for raw packet traffic but I was looking at something like MRTG to graph out network. For monitoring I was looking at Nagios. Time is as big of a deal as money. We are trying to do this for little or no cost. This is going to go directly to my manager so we can know how much we need to update are bandwidth. Any suggestions?
Found this list as well:
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html[/FONT]
Comments
I think “very senior” gets stuck in there because the last six yahoos that applied for the position couldn’t tell a packet from a Snickers bar.
Luck is where opportunity and proper planning meet
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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MS press book 70-680
I was leaning towards Nagios. It doesn't look easy to setup however but I can do it at home first.
I think “very senior” gets stuck in there because the last six yahoos that applied for the position couldn’t tell a packet from a Snickers bar.
Luck is where opportunity and proper planning meet
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
I would probably have a physical *nix box for our monitoring. We should have several spares opening up very soon. This won't happen for a little while though as I have to get the QoS and switch configs ironed out. So much to do....
I think “very senior” gets stuck in there because the last six yahoos that applied for the position couldn’t tell a packet from a Snickers bar.
Luck is where opportunity and proper planning meet
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison