I’m looking for suggestions on Monitoring software. I’ve tried things like etherreal and other low cost solutions but don’t seem to get the robust quick reference answers I’m looking for. I need to monitor WAN traffic, switch load, router load, server load, internet traffic, link bandwidth usage, packet destination and origin just to name a few things.
I’m not sure if there is one product out there that can do all this but maybe there are a couple that can get the job done. I’ve been given a budget of 10K to introduce preemptive monitoring. I’d also like paging features so I get a page on my cell phone if a perameter has been breached. Training on how to use would also be nice if the package is very robust.
I’m experiencing problems like complaints of the WAN being slow. Right now I don’t have a way to fish out the problem. If I had a program that was already running and could graphically tell me what a particular link, switch, router, or server was utilizing then I could use that to zero in on the problem.
It would also be nice if I had hard data to support my Network here. X server has been up for 122 days continuous. This user is responcible for 42% of our internet bandwidth. At these hours the PtP link sees this much traffic. Stuff like this. A tool(s) that could do this would be so very valuable to me.
I also have a firewall that’s blacklisted. My exchange server is okay mind you, but the firewall, which is at a different external IP, is blacklisted. To me this says someone is running an SMTP engine somewhere and spamming. My old Pro200 Sonicwall seems incapable of blocking or accurately logging the traffic in a way that I can figure out where this SMTP traffic is coming from.
Hell even if you had idea for a consultant to come in and help me setup the neccessary software, that would be great too.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this goal would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael Busch
