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

[Robert Taylor]

It's definitely a Windows product.
I've used it for more than a few years.
We monitor network gear, windows servers, do radius server auth checks,
dhcp server tests, monitor some things on our netapp, etc....
It's pretty full featured.

rgt

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:15 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> 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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