Looking for a Network Management Tool
We are looking for a software package that will do one or all of the following.
1) To be able to monitor outages of our network devices: routers, switches, etc. with alarms via email and paging.
2) Ideally, one step further than #1 above: to be able to monitor the STATUS of our network devices: routers, switches, etc. with alarms via email and paging.
3) Monitor and chart data throughput (not bandwidth) by customer (by Subscriber Module MAC address instead of IP address since we use DHCP (dynamic IPs for our customers)
We are trying to stay with dynamic IP addresses. Any suggestions on a software tool that will accomplish this. We are not developers, so we want a pre-made tool.
We looked at Dartware, but they only monitored via IP address.
Hi CarlC,
If you have a DHCP server, you may be able to setup a query for the DHCP leases that have been given out, which map to the MAC address. I had tinkered around with the Dartware product a while back and it was a real good tool. I found another Management tool that may be of interest to you.
http://manageengine.adventnet.com/produ … index.html
Hope this helps,
Vik
I am using Solarwinds Engineers Toolset to monitor network equipment. It’s fantastic. All SNMP configurable and sends me text messages on my cell phone wen there is a problem. http://www.solarwinds.net
I am also using the Allot NetEnforcer to montior and shape all of the data going through my network. Also fantastic. It will montior and shape data by a number of different parameters including MAC address. http://www.allot.com
Aaron
Well I have spent a few days now trying to get OpUtils to work with canopy and cannot. I just talked with their tech support (which is in india and could not understand a word they said) and made no progress.
Anyone else get OpUtils working?
I use WhatsUP! Gold for most of the systems on our network. For our Canopy network, we give our customers 2 connections. If they just plug their PC into the radio, they get a non-routable DHCP address (10.64.x.x), and if they want a real IP, they can do PPPoE. For monitoring radios going up and down, WhatsUP does a great job. It pages the telephone guys (we are a telco and an ISP), and text messages my cell phone when anything happens. You can have alert groups so only certain people get pages at certain times of day for certain devices. It also supports SNMP traps so you can have your routers, switches, anything with SNMP send the monitoring box a trap that can be relayed to your pager/cell. Also, for the Canopy system, I use MRTG to graph the traffic/errors/etc of the radios. I don’t tie the graphs to customers PC’s. I don’t care how much a PC/server is sending. I care about how much bandwidth their radio is sending (I can sniff at the gateway if I need to find some weird traffic coming from a certain PC if I need to). Just put IPs in your SM’s and use those IPs for monitoring. Then let the clients use DHCP for their PCs/servers. WhatUP can also monitor services on your network, so you can see if the FTP service on your Web server is down, for instance.
MRTG is definately worth looking at its very versatile and flexible. But you will need to tweek and integrate it to for your needs. Especially when you start to monitor a large number of nodes, you will need to look at either developing or finding a front end to help you manage the data.
I have been using it for a week and its growing on me.
for SNMP monitoring, I hav eheard some very good stuff about Nagios, its FREE and I am currently in the process of setting it up, but it looks very good if you got the time to set it up properly, covers all types of monitoring, escalation procedures, different actions on events, intelligent to program hosts behind a switch so that if the switch goes down it know that it can’t see the hosts and can handle raising alarms accordingly. Although I have not used it yet it looks good from what I know of it.
If your willing to pay Micromuse’s Netcool Omnibus is very very good.
Tx
Nagios,
email and paging alerts, web interface, custom spript support, SNMP, status as well as just “up or down”, and best of all: its OSS.
I use Whats UP Gold too, not sure where i got it from, but did not pay for it. It works great for what we are using it for, basically just monitoring all the APs and BHs on the network, which all have static non-routable IP addresses. Got it sending alerts to my phone if anything goes down.
I ve manged to compile and install Nagios, after much hacking and playing I got it to start workin on my webserver… BUT…
I am having problems with the CGI I get the following error on the browser
Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
and in the httpd/error_log
[Sat Feb 19 09:01:23 2005] [error] [client 216.132.71.211] Premature end of script headers: status.cgi, referer: http://216.132.71.211/nagios/side.html
now i believe that is suggesting that i have a duff script, problem is that the scripts are binaries compiled in C, do I have to start playing with C and recompile or is there an easier way out.
Tx
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vj wrote:
and in the httpd/error_log
[Sat Feb 19 09:01:23 2005] [error] [client 216.132.71.211] Premature end of script headers: status.cgi, referer: http://216.132.71.211/nagios/side.html
now i believe that is suggesting that i have a duff script, problem is that the scripts are binaries compiled in C, do I have to start playing with C and recompile or is there an easier way out.
Tx
Sorry I just now noticed your post. Are you still having issues? It looks like a SELinux permissions problem.
Try looking in /var/log/messages for SELinux log entries.
Hi,
We at NetMechanica delivered similar solution to several customers that use Canopy equipment.
You can find out more at out web site: http://www.netmechanica.com/?id=12
Please also note that NetMechanica is now listed as Canopy solution partner.
Sincerely,
NetMechanica Support Team