Re: 3rd party network monitoring

[Jason LeBlanc <jml () packetpimp org>]

One app I like a lot is Ping Plotter, but it only runs on Windows, so it 
isn't good for remote monitoring.  We do use it for some things, 
however.  I like the detailed traceroute / latency visualization it 
has.  It also has a hard time with a lot (100+) nodes being monitored.  
SmokePing works well, but lacks detail in the form of traceroute.

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 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