[c-nsp] SLA newbie question...

[Ali Khurram]

Hi, 

All the open systems mentioned before are great to use and I have used them all at work. Some were implemented by myself, others were already there. I will recommend using DUDE it's what u really after, excellent monitoring with all the options of high end monitoring tools just depend upon you how much time you will like to spend on setting up basic & extra options

Regards,

Ali Khurram
Ugl Network administrator
It's all about Community

On 20/06/2011, at 10:45 PM, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 08:32 -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:
>> Are there any good pointers/references to setting up very basic SLA
>> monitoring, as well as some recording/reporting package that doesn't
>> require large truckloads of cash?
> 
> As for the latter I've found Cacti to be very useful. IP SLA templates
> can be found here:
> 
> http://forums.cacti.net/about19542.html
> 
> Setting up the IP SLA probes themselves are IMO quite straightforward.
> If you need to manage a large number of probes you do want some kind of
> tool to automate creating new ones of course. We currently script it via
> crude templates, but we don't have that many.
> 
>> Nothing terribly fancy, and preferably something that can be
>> implemented on Catalysts (6500s core/border, various smaller ones in
>> distribution).
> 
> As you're probably aware, the 6500 supervisors (and other switches) have
> lousy processors. You may not get good results with many IP SLA probes,
> especially if they're supposed to measure latency and/or jitter. We use
> 2801s instead.
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> 
> 
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