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Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Wed Feb 26 12:01:43 2003 
> MRTG/RRDTool or RTG are nice packages for somethings, but you might have
> to have a farm of pollers/graphers/displayers (and a few folks to care for
> them/create displays that matter) to poll 100,000 interfaces, eh?
>
Polling 100000 interfaces every five minutes is only 333 queries per second.

It gets complicated if you want to do something useful with the data you poll.
I�ll be happy to listen to ideas what people would like to do with data from 100000
apart from plotting it on X/Y axis. Maybe some of them would eventually get
implemented properly.

Pete