On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > I'm looking for some software which can monitor a SNMP-enabled switch.
Well, it's likely that the switch vendor offers some tools. > Sure I can use Cacti to monitor bandwidth of every single port... or Nagios > to warn me if some port gets some defined amount of traffic for a defined > amount of time... Yes, those are reasonable starting points. > I was wondering though, if there was some more specific tool which might be > faster to setup and would do some magic automatically, like computing the > total traffic flowing through, identifying bottlenecks, etc... Sure. What's your budget? Something like HP's OpenView (which I just learned was rebranded to "HP Network Management Center"), or Cisco's LAN Management stuff (evidently also rebranded) do all sorts of nice network discovery and autoconfig, routing/traffic bottleneck analysis, etc. They also cost 5 to 6-digit sums, but if you've got multiple WAN links between data centers to manage, or some complicated VM/cloud architecture, they're probably worth the price. (Of course, if you've just got "a" meaning "one" switch to manage, that would be overkill.) Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
