I use MRTG for the boxes I have working/usable SNMP
implementations on.
It doesn't handle outages/crashes very well. it just
treats the last successfully retrieved data volume as
continuing until new data becomes available.
There are some boxes I need to monitor, on which SNMP
is broken or unavailable.
I'm not sure whether it would meet the original
poster's need, or not.
David Gillett
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma_at_hotmail.com]
> Sent: March 5, 2003 15:44
> To: security-basics_at_securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Any good method to check network overload?
>
>
> >From: swin <swin_at_student.dlut.edu.cn>
> >David Wrote:
> > >This suggests that if ping times are consistently more
> than some value,
> > >or are timing out, then the network is probably overloaded. (Pings
> > >will also time out if the router is down, but you probably
> want to alert
> > >for that, too. If you need to distinguish between the two
> cases, compare
> > >pings OF the router with pings THROUGH the router.)
> >
> > What we want is an reliable way to check overload ,and we
> especially
> >accentuate it should be reliable,this method sounds a lttle
> rough,indeed
> >it can check if system is overload,but is it very reliable
> for automatic
> >check?and we hope to install the check program on the server
> or router
> >itself,if so ,is it different?
> >
> > Thanks for you suggestion!
> >
> > swin. wang
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with using MRTG?
>
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
>
> I mean, why reinvent the wheel?
>
> Chris Berry
> compjma_at_hotmail.com
> Systems Administrator
> JM Associates
>
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