[cisco-voip] CDR Monitoring tool

Ed Leatherman ealeatherman at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 15:22:21 EST 2009


I use cacti, seems to do an OK job for what I use it for. And it's free :)

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com> wrote:

> What management tools are you using with IPSLA?  we have just started to
> enable the IPSLA but not sure how to use the data in a good (GUI)  fashion.
>
> Scott
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Take a look at the IPSLA feature set, if you have equipment that can run
>> the required IOS it can do quite a bit in the monitoring portion when paired
>> with some decent network management tools that you might already have.
>>
>> www.cisco.com/ipsla
>>
>> I'm using it for various synthetic tests on our LAN and WAN links for such
>> things as call quality and latency between CUCM subscribers. test results
>> are pollable via SNMP and you can graph them with MRTG or cacti if you
>> happen to use those.
>> I'm not doing any alerting with it currently but I know it can be
>> configured to send SNMP traps if a threshold is exceeded.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>   On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Daniel Martin <martind at cae.com> wrote:
>>
>>>    Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm looking to purchase  good  VoIP monitoring  tool(s) and would like to
>>> know what other people in the community are using?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I want two different types of tool.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> One that is proactively monitoring the network / QoS / Call Manager and
>>> notifies me of issues, able to do synthetic tests as well. Some reports and
>>> dashboard are also something that is needed. I've been researching products
>>> such as Prognosis, CA Ehealth (since we are using Spectrum) and Cisco
>>> Operations Manager (Service Monitor).
>>>
>>> -          Anybody using these products and can provide me some
>>> pros/cons or propose other products
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The other product would be sniffer type such as JDSU DA-3400 / Probe or
>>> something running on a laptop that can analyse voice traffic on a SPAN port.
>>> Cisco has probes as well with their Service Monitor product which sounds
>>> good. Anybody using probes to capture/analyse voice traffic? Which product
>>> are you using and pros/cons?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel Martin
>>>
>>> Chef de Groupe - Infrastructure Réseau et Télécom
>>>
>>> Group Leader - Network Infrastructure and Telecom
>>>
>>> CAE Inc.
>>>
>>> St-Laurent, Québec Canada
>>>
>>> H4T 1G6
>>>
>>> Tél:  1-514-341-2000 x4878
>>>
>>> Fax: 1-514-340-5583
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Ed Leatherman
>> Assistant Director, Voice Services
>> West Virginia University
>> Telecommunications and Network Operations
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>


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Ed Leatherman
Assistant Director, Voice Services
West Virginia University
Telecommunications and Network Operations
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