[cisco-voip] CDR Monitoring tool

Ed Leatherman ealeatherman at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 15:27:14 EST 2009


I referred to this thread for my cacti templates etc for IP SLA:

http://forums.cacti.net/about19542.html



On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com>wrote:

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



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