Network Monitoring Software

controlcontrol Senior MemberMember Posts: 309
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Can anyone share their experiences with any Network Monitoring software they have used in the real world. I'm interested in looking at Interface Utilization to see if the current links are being stretched Bandwidth wise.

Ideally free for commercial use - I've been looking at MRTG. Anyone used this? If I was using it to monitor core router interfaces, does it have any impact on router performance at all?
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  • BrizoHBrizoH Member Member Posts: 73 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Cacti is probably your best bet - free, unlimited devices and easy to set up even for a Linuxphobe like myself

    PRTG is also very good but only the first 10 devices are free
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  • DevilWAHDevilWAH The Bringer of Light Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    MUTINY is another one,

    mutiny.com

    again only first 10 devices are free. but it has a very easy web based interface and even the paid version is not to bad.

    it uses SNMP (as most monitoring does) and this has minimal impact on performance. SNMP by its very nature is designed to have minim impact on performance, and in the real world even very heavy usage of it will not have any effect.

    Mutiny can provide at a glance usage, predefined usage alerts, and at a click hestorical data/trends.
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  • LizanoLizano Senior Member Member Posts: 230 ■■■□□□□□□□
    If you get good at it OpenNMS is a winner. Before Open, I used Nagios and Cacti.
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  • chmodchmod Senior Member Member Posts: 360 ■■■□□□□□□□
    For a small network you can download a groundworks virtual appliance and just add devices it supports 50 for free with a bunch of options and a nice gui.
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  • chmodchmod Senior Member Member Posts: 360 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Spiceworks is very complete for a small network, the most complete tool for asset tracking, SNMP monitoring, Bandwidth monitoring and ticketing.
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  • phoeneousphoeneous Go ping yourself... Member Posts: 2,333 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Zabbix. Best free nms I've ever used.
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  • lsud00dlsud00d 1337sauce Member Posts: 1,571
    Cacti + Weathermap FTW
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  • CodeBloxCodeBlox Network Engineer Member Posts: 1,363 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Icinga and Cacti are what we use here at our shop.
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  • chmodchmod Senior Member Member Posts: 360 ■■■□□□□□□□
    What i love about spiceworks is that i can backup config of al my network devices.
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  • Dakinggamer87Dakinggamer87 Gaming Tech Expert Silicon Valley, CAMember Posts: 4,016 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Nagios and Cacti are what I've used in the past and they both work very well
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  • aaron0011aaron0011 Senior Member Member Posts: 330
    SolarWinds Orion is my favorite one. The amount of features and information you can monitor with it is crazy.
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  • chmodchmod Senior Member Member Posts: 360 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Is great but so expensive, just a few companies can afford their licensing to get all the features.
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  • RouteMyPacketRouteMyPacket Senior Member Member Posts: 1,104
    Zenoss for the win!
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  • xXErebuSxXErebuS Senior Member Member Posts: 230
    Cacti for free but once you use PRTG you'll see its worth the $$
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  • MAC_AddyMAC_Addy Happiness is !!!!! Member Posts: 1,740 ■■■■□□□□□□
    PRTG is awesome and so is SolarWinds.
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  • PurpleITPurpleIT Senior Member Member Posts: 327
    I was wondering if anyone was going to mention PRTG; I've been a fan if it for several years. It certainly doesn't try to do everything that that big programs do, but it is at a very good price point and has great functionality.
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