[NTLUG:Discuss] Monitoring a Network

[Joe Torma]

Groundwork Open Source (http://groundworkopensource.com ). Should serve you well.  Also worth mentioning (although not so much for just straight up monitoring - more routing and network control) is Vyatta - http://vyatta.com .

Good luck!

Joe

Thanks,   Joe    972-231-2120

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Myhand <dmyhand at suddenlink.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:26:35 
To: NTLUG Discussion List<discuss at ntlug.org>
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Monitoring a Network

I am about to start a new position at the school district I work at.  My 
position will be Technology Coordinator and the district is small enough 
that the position will include computer repair, deployment, and 
maintenance as well as maintaining and improving the network, and 
planning for future expansion.  My question is, what network tools are 
available to me to keep an eye on things and see what is happening on my 
network?  One problem we have had this last year, and what played a big 
part in the most recent technology coordinator deciding to leave, was a 
big slow down in network speed.  He said it was too many people surfing 
the net and downloading video that caused the problems with network 
speed.  I have no doubt that was a part of the problem.  But there were 
also network devices he installed which brought the network to a halt 
and then had to be uninstalled.  I am not sure that the network was 
reconfigured properly because speeds never seemed to return to normal. 
We have 6 DS-1 lines which will be connected this July.  I am wanting to 
know what I can use to see what is happening on the network.  The guy I 
am replacing was a M$ only guy.  I am willing to use whatever tool is 
available.  I prefer Debian but will use SuSE or CentOS.  Please, let me 
hear your advise.  Thank you, Dennis Myhand

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