[c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools

[Keegan Holley]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Leigh Harrison <
lharrison at convergencegroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello there group,
>
>
> First question then:
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> We're just about to buy a job lot of ME3600X's - anyone using them and
> any feedback on them (especially on them running IPv6)?
>
> covered

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> And Second questions whilst I'm on:
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> What tools are you guys using (ideally open source ones) to keep an eye
> on your networks?  (Especially Jitter)
>

to answer your original question the cisco gear and the other metro vendors
have built in management and monitoring capabilities in CFM and *ITU*-T
G.8261 (cisco may have made a proprietary version as they did with ITU
G.8032/REP).  You can usually just graph the readings with the standard open
source tools.  I can't recommend one as I've never used OSS for this in
production, but it's not really complicated to setup though.