Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-11 Thread Ethan Katz-Bassett
al Message Subject: 3rd party network monitoring Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:02:27 -0500 From: Darrell Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nanog@merit.edu In light of the recent major outages experienced by XO and Abovenet, I have become very interested in finding a 3rd party vendor

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jeroen Massar
Jason LeBlanc wrote: I did look at it, it still lacks a few things, but it does cover most. It would be nice if you added some screenshots or demo pages as to what the reporting looks like. I had to dig around and find a paper on the slammer worm to see what the output looks like. Contact

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I did look at it, it still lacks a few things, but it does cover most. It would be nice if you added some screenshots or demo pages as to what the reporting looks like. I had to dig around and find a paper on the slammer worm to see what the output looks like. Jeroen Massar wrote: Jason L

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jeroen Massar
Jason LeBlanc wrote: My bad, you might be able to do it with PingPlotter using remote proxies that are linux. I can see using the Vixie personal colo list to find cheap vm offerings in various locations. Other option, a few could get together and share some resources to get the proxies dist

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jason LeBlanc
My bad, you might be able to do it with PingPlotter using remote proxies that are linux. I can see using the Vixie personal colo list to find cheap vm offerings in various locations. Other option, a few could get together and share some resources to get the proxies distributed. http://www.

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-07 Thread Jason LeBlanc
One app I like a lot is Ping Plotter, but it only runs on Windows, so it isn't good for remote monitoring. We do use it for some things, however. I like the detailed traceroute / latency visualization it has. It also has a hard time with a lot (100+) nodes being monitored. SmokePing works

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-06 Thread Jeroen Massar
John A. Kilpatrick wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote: When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support simple ICMP requests. To them "simple" means it's just a ping check. They won't montior/graph/care about latency. I was pondering creating a "smoke ping col

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-06 Thread John A. Kilpatrick
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote: When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support simple ICMP requests. To them "simple" means it's just a ping check. They won't montior/graph/care about latency. I was pondering creating a "smoke ping collective". Get a bunch of g

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-05 Thread Matt
alert from Systems Watch, I do make way to a console more than I would with my own monitoring. Happy trails, Eddy On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Michael Painter wrote: - Original Message - From: "Darrell Hyde" Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:02 AM Subject: 3rd party network mon

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-05 Thread Eddy Martinez
would with my own monitoring. Happy trails, Eddy On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Michael Painter wrote: - Original Message - From: "Darrell Hyde" Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:02 AM Subject: 3rd party network monitoring [snip] Can anybody recommend a vendor for this typ

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: "Darrell Hyde" Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:02 AM Subject: 3rd party network monitoring [snip] Can anybody recommend a vendor for this type of service? I suppose I could always just get a bunch of VPS accounts here and there and run smokepin

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-05 Thread Tom Sands
We use Websitepulse and it works well. We've tried repeatedly to get a more advanced setup with Keynote, however in the past 8 months we've yet to be able to get anyone to reliably contact or respond to us. Horrible service, and I guess new business doesn't matter to them. When we did get a

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-05 Thread Thomas Kuehling
Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 12:02 -0500 schrieb Darrell Hyde: > In light of the recent major outages experienced by XO and Abovenet, I > have become very interested in finding a 3rd party vendor to monitor the > availability of my network from a variety of locations. > > I've looked at keynote /

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-04 Thread Matt Peterson
Check out WebSitePulse.com While they too are geared for service testing (such as HTTP, DNS, IMAP, etc); they do offer a barebones ICMP check (with support to pull from multiple geographical locations) with some basic graphing & escalation support (looks like they can notify when a prede

Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-04 Thread Drew Linsalata
Try Hyperspin (hyperspin.com). Basic, but pretty solid. On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Darrell Hyde wrote: In light of the recent major outages experienced by XO and Abovenet, I have become very interested in finding a 3rd party vendor to monitor the availability of my network from a v

3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-04 Thread Darrell Hyde
In light of the recent major outages experienced by XO and Abovenet, I have become very interested in finding a 3rd party vendor to monitor the availability of my network from a variety of locations. I've looked at keynote / redalert, but oddly enough they don't seem to be able to monitor simple