Re: on good monitoring software info

[Dave C <davec () digistruction com>]

Charles Hammett wrote:

> I use Cacti for SNMP and historical tracking. This also produce
> bandwidth reports on my Cisco switches and routers. I have been able to
> configure this to monitor our UPS systems along with the PDU that is
> attached to them. I can pull information from our Netscreen firewall
> about sessions, CPU and Memory usage along with interface statistics. We
> have an environmental monitor in the Datacenter that this software can
> also track. However it will not alert you of and issue. At least that I
> have been able to figure out yet.
> http://www.cacti.net

Then it might be time for you to revisit cacti. Alot of people have been 
doing "plugins" now. I use it to monitor threshold, reboots/ups/downs 
and a whole host of things. Check out their forums for details.

http://forums.cacti.net/

Dave

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