Blind Networking

Hi,

Solarwinds would be a god bet for monitoring ther status of the devices like memory usage, interface status etc whereas Netflow would help you identify the traffic flowing to the internet. USing Netflow you will be able to find out the protocol.

So a combination of these and other tools (IDS for example) will be a good idea.

Thank you for the information. I will look into using a combination of said software.

I have a had a play with Cacti but it required much much more time and effort to setup and you had to install further plug-ins that others had wrote to get more functionality.

we use two small shareware tools that do the tricks that we want to have

they are both from www.paessler.com

PRTG which is a MRTG on windows and with a click and play interface that are better and completer and take 5 minutes
just be careful that your router can take the mirroring or just take the ports that are important (internet for example)

and IPcheck that is really a product that equals software that costs 10 to 100 times the price. This also takes 5 minutes to set up.

ps if your network is somewhat great you need two good pc's around 1000 euro's each with enough ram and double process

if you take a good graphic card you can place the realtime figures on a widescreen so that people can see in a second what is happening where when

for free soft look at n-top instead of PRTG but you will still need a good pc box.

also take into account that the internal reglement of use gives the pc department the authority to watch permanently what is happening on their network.

ekz.skynetblogs.be

I have no link to the software discribed above

I use PRTG too. It's worth the money if you can't be bothered to mess around with all the configs under MRTG