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What are your favorite network monitoring/troubleshooting tools.

Yan Henrichon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:44:11 GMT

Hi folks!

A few days ago, a customer called and told me that he has network slowdowns and event deconnections. I've started to troubleshoot but had a really hard time to pinpoint the source. Even today, I'm not sure if what I found was the cause.

And surfing the web, I was wondering what is the ultimate network monitoring/troubleshooting tools available. I use WireShark a lot, Look@lan, puTTY but what are yours? Are you using NTOP, Zabbix or any network probe?

I look forward to read your answers.

Yan.

Re: What are your favorite network monitoring/troubleshooting tools.

Reto Krucker — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:25:30 GMT

I use Whatsup for monitoring.

Re: What are your favorite network monitoring/troubleshooting tools.

cenk sasmaztin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:13:32 GMT

my advice ProCurve manager Plus and inmon traffic santiel

http://www.procurve.com/one/applications/network.htm

for wireless network

http://www.procurve.com/one/applications/network.htm

Re: What are your favorite network monitoring/troubleshooting tools.

Pieter 't Hart — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:38:08 GMT

WhatsUp Gold can do a lot.
but if your network grows a single tool is not sufficient, you need a set (or suite).

maybe netqos can be something for you. http://www.netqos.com/

I don't use this myself, but been at a presentation wich looked promising.

Pieter

Re: What are your favorite network monitoring/troubleshooting tools.

Casey Morford — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:07:57 GMT

I've used cacti for quite some time to graph bandwidth on each port. It is especially useful to see bandwidth over time. I also use a plugin for cacti called MacTracker. This has been invaluable for finding any mac address and which switch port it is plugged into.

Re: What are your favorite network monitoring/troubleshooting tools.

Yan Henrichon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:44:16 GMT

Thank you.