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I was interested if anyone has actually seen or heard anything about this ? There seems to be enough interest about such products... & it seems to be pretty hot stuff if MCI chose it to do QOS & monitoring of there ATM Links & other Network components..... Any replys ? thanks, Dave Scrivens iSTAR Internet email: [email protected] > > > > I was wondering about this myself, has anyone seen the Linmor NMS system. > > This system has been chosen by MCI after extensive evaluation of existing > Network Management Systems to manage there ATM Hyperstream Network. > > This Network Management Provides several other interesting functions such > as Object Oriented Class for an object. It also has a Web Page which can > list all objects & the traffic statistics for each link. > > As well it can do the below. From it a QOS of service report can be generated > indicating the health of of your Network. Reports on the Uptine of your BGP > routing process as well as OSPF & EIGRP can be generated. > > It also has the ability to Monitor Unix machines & " Mission " critical processes > such as NAMED or mail & News processes. You can actually get an indication > that the memory on the Unix box is low & that is the problem. > > & Unlike HP Openview, Autodiscovery works very nicely on a large Network. > > Instead of crashing your Network, you get a pretty nice map infront of you. > > It is also a distributed system architecture where you can have multiple > Data Collectors spread out through your Network talking to each other, > exchaning information about the Health of the Network. & you can function > in Hot Standby mode where if one of your Data Collectors goes down, another > will take up the load. > > I have seen a SPARC IPC manage over 1500 Network Router Objects including > including Cisco 7000's & Cisco 7513's. So even though this is alot for a > little SPARC Server, it worked pretty good. It is not highly recommeneded > to run your Network like this but as a test .... > > You can also run reports on your Network & figure out where your facilities > such as the Memory on Core & Border Routers need to be upgraded or where > you are running out of bandwidth & need to add more. > > As well, remote site customer management where the customer can be given an > account to actually monitor his connection with his provider, from his > provider, works good. A check for the customer to ensure that he is getting > good service from his provider. > > & since you can get remote site access, you can actually get a Network Management > Station from another site. > > > This is a Really neat product, atleast from what I have seen. Has anyone else > encountered it ? > > Anyway check it out ..... WWW.LINMOR.COM > > They have some really neat stuff.. > > thanks, > > Dave Scrivens, > iSTAR Internet. > > > > > based on a recent email about bgp peer monitoring and others over the > > last few months, we thought this would be a good time to release a tool > > called rtrmon (router monitor) that we've been working on with vixie > > enterprises. > > > > please see: www.vix.com/rtrmon > > > > vixie enterprises provided the development expertise and based the design > > on the needs of genuity initially. it's fairly generic and extensible. > > currently it: > > > > - monitors bgp sessions and reports failures > > - monitors cpu usage and reports failures > > - monitors ospf neighbors > > - downloads, diffs, and archives cisco configs > > > > it's all cisco oriented as that's our primary platform. we'll start a > > mailing list soon for discussion (next week) but in the short interrim > > please send mail to myself or danny mcpherson ([email protected]) for > > questions or problems. we'll have this hosted on our own web site(s) > > sometime next week as well. enjoy. > > > > -brett > > > >
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