[c-nsp] Monitoring software for DSL

[Roger Weeks]

Greetings -

I know this question gets asked at least once every month, but I'm 
going to ask it again, with a bit of a twist.

We're a small ISP and since November we have been offering DSL 
primarily in just one little town on the California coast.  All our DSL 
customers are terminated into a Cisco 7206VXR with a DS3 card.

We're getting ready to expand our offering area, and what I want to be 
able to do is set up monitoring software that
	separates DSL users by city
	provides bandwidth monitoring
	is smart enough to re-walk the router regularly
	has a web-based administraton interface

Up to this point, I've been using MRTG with rrdtool and the 
routers2.cgi frontend, and it works pretty well.  However, it doesn't 
really support the kind of flexibility I need.

Specifically I need to be able to group the subinterfaces on the 7206 
so that they make sense from a geographical standpoint - City 1, City 
2, City 3, etc.

Is anyone else out there doing this?  I've looked around at the tools 
I'm aware of, and I can't find anything that specifically has these 
features.  Cacti looks like it might be flexible enough with templates 
to do what I want.  NMIS doesn't look like it will handle this.

Any and all suggestions welcome.

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Roger J. Weeks
Systems & Network Administrator
Mendocino Community Network
Now offering DSL in Northern California