On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:59 -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > Howdy, > > Can anyone suggest a network monitoring system that knows the difference > between a cisco 1701 and a GSR 12810/6500, etc? > > What I mean is, many times these days there are several different sub systems > you have to monitor inside of a router/switch and not just interface > utilization, the "CPU", and the "RAM". > > Statistics such as CEF utilization, fabric utilization, PFC/DFC, various line > card statistics, etc? > > Can anyone recommend anything other than "customize MRTG a lot" that we can > use to get a better look into these systems?
We use Cacti for this purpose, but it still requires creating custom datasources for the vendor-specific SNMP MIBs. William -- William Pitcock SystemInPlace - Simple Hosting Solutions 1-866-519-6149 http://www.systeminplace.net/ Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/systeminplace