Re: 3rd party network monitoring

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>]

John A. Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote:
>
> > When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support 
> > simple ICMP requests.
>
> To them "simple" means it's just a ping check.  They won't 
> montior/graph/care about latency.
>
> I was pondering creating a "smoke ping collective".  Get a bunch of guys 
> to agree to run smokeping and monitor each other.  That's a great tool 
> for visualizing changes in latency and works just as well with ICMP as 
> with HTTP.

There is this really awesome project from RIPE (like usual ;)

Please check, and start using RIPE TTM: http://www.ripe.net/ttm/
See the site for presentations, tools, info, etc etc etc etc...

Enjoy ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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