Network testing hp-ux network

[ESO HP Sysadmin]

Hi,

We have majority hp-ux network here.. Could anybody give me some advice on network testing tools?

Other than openview, or is that the only?

Regards

Ean

[Shannon Petry]

What are you trying to test? It makes a huge difference in what I would recommend to you.

Regards,
Shannon

[John Bolene]

curious what you are looking for in the way of tools?

whether you have connectivity?
where the bottlenecks are?
how fast can you transfer data?

[Steven E. Protter]

Toptools is free, if you have an HP PC to run it on.

nettl is a network packet sniffer built into the OS.

ethreal is a GUI network traffic sniffer.
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gtk/ethereal-0.9.13/

You really might want to state your goals to get good help.

SEP

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
if you just plan to monitor the network, and want to pay, you can also think to

NNM

Massimo

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

You have the glance that monitor network on
local machine
NNM could help but coast a lot.
Ethereal is a sniffer program.

ping, lanadmin, netstat.

But depend what you wanna test.

Caesar

[ESO HP Sysadmin]

I am pinging a single packet between two hp-ux J5000 workstations every second. Every so often the packet is dropped. No more than ten times a day. Users are complaining about applications loosing network communication. This is the problem, with ping we are not really seeing any great problem. The application is sensitive to network problems.

I have been tasked with saying the network is 100% A OK. That there are not config issues or hardware. So that the user can start to debug the application.

Any more info need?