[Outages-discussion] QUERY: Can Icinga do Cricket/MRTG on switches?

[Robert Taylor]

FYI, Prtg runs on windows and has a free version that allows up to 100
sensors(monitored object, which would be an interface in this case)
and is pretty easy to get going.

https://www.paessler.com/howto-free-network-monitoring

It also does monitoring and such, and can alert on failures.

rgt

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 1:52 PM Jay R. Ashworth via Outages-discussion <
outages-discussion at outages.org> wrote:

> I haven't needed to monitor switch throughput much in my career, they're
> really small networks.  But I have a client who just upgraded to 2 stacked
> CBS-350s, and they're having trouble that might be the switches, and
> they're a
> Windows house (no Linux or spare servers just now) and Icinga has a Windows
> distribution... WHEREFORE:
>
> This seems like the kind of crowd some of whom might be running Icinga: can
> it do the sort of RRDtool graphing stuff that Cricket does, in addition to
> all the other monitoring it does?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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