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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

I had looked at PRTG, and it appeared there wasn't an 'official'
install for Windows; you had to hand-hack it; did I miss something?
-- jra

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Taylor" <rgt at wi.mit.edu>
> To: "jra" <jra at baylink.com>
> Cc: "Outages Discussion" <outages-discussion at outages.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 2:11:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] QUERY: Can Icinga do Cricket/MRTG on switches?

> 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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Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink                       jra at baylink.com
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St Petersburg FL USA      BCP38: Ask For It By Name!           +1 727 647 1274