[MLB-WIRELESS] network monitoring software??

[Mark Aitken]

Thanks for that Nigel,

Much appreciated.

I will download and have a look.

Regards

Mark


On 5/05/2010 11:13 PM, Nigel Zeinert wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> I use cacti to monitor my network. http://www.cacti.net/index.php
> It defaults to a ping every 5 minutes, but you can change this down to 
> a small interval. (beware! if the total time to pole you network is 
> longer than the interval time, things go bang! consider every host not 
> replying. eg ping fail with 2 shots will take 3 sec for each host so 
> 100 host max) having said that i have over a 1000 host on one box
>
> I like http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ for a USB OS
> INL in Idaho Falls recommend the software
>
> Cheers
>
> Nigel
>
>