[c-nsp] Network Software - Management/Performance

[Roland Dobbins]

On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Paul Stewart wrote:

> I'm hoping for some input from the list... open to any ideas  
> commercial or
> open source...

It sounds to me as if Nagios combined with nfdump/nfsen might be  
worth investigating - they're both open source, but aren't horribly  
complex to get up and running, IMHO.

For a commercial solution, AFAIK, most of the NMS-type things are  
pretty pricey, as are the NetFlow systems.  But you do get what you  
pay for with the commercial NetFlow solutions (including anomaly- 
detection, which is very useful for getting alerted to inbound/ 
outbound DDoS, SMTP upsurges which may indicate spam-zombies and/or  
email-borne virus activity, etc.).  SP-oriented players in the  
NetFlow-based AD space are Arbor, Narus, and Q1 Labs.

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