[c-nsp] Network Software - Management/Performance

[Paul Stewart]

Thanks Roland.. we have a commerical Netflow system already (Adventnet)
which works "ok" (really slow at times)... it's the monitoring part that's
really of interest and we keep coming back to Nagios to be honest... just
looking around for options at this point. It's a lot of work to bring a few
hundred devices onboard a new system to find out we don't like it...;)

Paul
 

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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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