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Re: Backbone Monitoring Tools
- From: Jon Lyons
- Date: Tue Mar 28 22:29:20 2006
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Do you need generate alerts? Or provide trending information to measure performance? I said mrtg or rrd because you can create graphs based on the ping repsonse time & packet loss between the datacenters, you could also create a graph showing how long it takes to transfere a file to remote site. Basic mrtg and a few simple scripts and a webserver. If you need something that alerts you with e-mail/pages, then nagios, but you'll spend a lot of time in setup and trying to export the nagios checks to into a someting that makes pretty graphs if you need that. I thought the Internap FCP is only for bgp setups, also it doesn't provide the informatoin you're gonna want, at least not that I can tell yet.. :) Thanks for the quick responses. Perhaps I should have been more explicit.
I already use "remstats" (http://remstats.sourceforge.net/release/index.html) for interface b/w monitoring. I have worked with nagios and openview int he past.
I have an ospf based network. The specific monitoring problem I am trying to solve is :
1. actively test the currently active path for packet loss and transfer i.e. draw a latency grid between every datacenter and every other datacenter
2. actively detect routing changes / failover to redundant paths using traceroutes i.e. alert if SFO->CHG->NYC changes to SFO->LXE->HOU->NYC ( link state protocols suck as far as testing backup paths go)
3. actively transfer a fixed file i.e. draw a datarate grid between every datacenter and every other datacenter
So,
I am not looking for a generic graphing/alerting NMS. Does anyone use a specific tool that is capable of doing this ?
I am in a buy vs. build debate with my boss ;)
Regards, Ashe.
On 3/28/06, Josh Cheney wrote: > > I have had a decent amount of success with Nagios. It is not trivial to > setup, but once it is up and running, it has always handled our > dependencies and such very well. Additionally, because it calls external > programs to do the checks, it is pretty simple to write a script that > measures whatever value you would like to monitor. As I said before, it > is a pain to set up initially, but after getting it set up, I couldn't > be happier with it. > > Ashe Canvar wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I want a simple backbone monitor for my 5 datacenters. My "backbone" > > consists of redundant IPSEC/GRE tunnnels. >
> > > At the very least I want to ping, traceroute and transfer a small file > > every few minutes over all IPSEC links. I am sure there are products > > that do this already, but I am having a hard time finding any. > > > > The display format should be noc-friendly. A basic grid with green/red > > status indicators at the least. Geographical maps a plus. > > > > Do most of you use a home grown tool for this monitoring and alerting ? > > > > Regards, > > Ashe > > > > . > > > > -- > Josh Cheney > [email protected] > http://www.joshcheney.com >
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