topic Re: logging in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038415#M914982 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>You have mentioned that you are using "whats up gold " for monitoring..</P><P>Are you using SNMP for ICMP for polling data from the devices ?</P><P></P><P>One of our clients was using ICMP for polling with Whats Up Gold tool, and many a times recieved false alarms for devices showing down, whereas there was no downtime or interruption of services.</P><P></P><P>There are some options in the tool , wherein we can increase the poll intervals and also other parameters which may minimise the false alarms.</P><P></P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:51:05 GMT dhananjoy chowdhury 2008-08-07T18:51:05Z logging https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038412#M914975 <P>i have a few pix 501's out there on my network!</P><P></P><P>i have whats up gold monitoring my uptime of my isp's and the outside ip's of the pix's.</P><P></P><P>is there any loggin that the pix does where i can see if my isp dropped connection! </P><P></P><P>i am not to sure if i trust whats up gold... because my isp's are telling me that they never lost connection. but whats up is telling me there down. any way i can confirm that from the pix logs?</P><P></P><P>any ideas?</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:27:54 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038412#M914975 Danny Guillory Jr 2019-03-11T13:27:54Z Re: logging https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038413#M914977 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>How can what's up gold check your public IPs while being placed 'inside' your network? Its not possible IMHO.</P><P></P><P>Do you want to check DNS reachability or just the status of the interface? Sometimes the ISP link physically remains UP but they loose connectivity with there upstream provider / or mess up with there on devices. So what exactly do you want to test?</P><P></P><P>Is there any router in front of the PIX?</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P></P><P>Farrukh</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:29:37 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038413#M914977 Farrukh Haroon 2008-08-07T18:29:37Z Re: logging https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038414#M914981 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i have the isp's modems in bridge mode so the pix supply's all the information. and the pix 501's have a vpn tunnel to the main network witch is a 506E</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:34:38 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038414#M914981 Danny Guillory Jr 2008-08-07T18:34:38Z Re: logging https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038415#M914982 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>You have mentioned that you are using "whats up gold " for monitoring..</P><P>Are you using SNMP for ICMP for polling data from the devices ?</P><P></P><P>One of our clients was using ICMP for polling with Whats Up Gold tool, and many a times recieved false alarms for devices showing down, whereas there was no downtime or interruption of services.</P><P></P><P>There are some options in the tool , wherein we can increase the poll intervals and also other parameters which may minimise the false alarms.</P><P></P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:51:05 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038415#M914982 dhananjoy chowdhury 2008-08-07T18:51:05Z Re: logging https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038416#M914984 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>yes i am using whats up gold SNMP and ICPM polling. </P><P></P><P>and i would like to know about the loggs to see if whats up is reporting false data!</P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:55:13 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038416#M914984 Danny Guillory Jr 2008-08-07T18:55:13Z Re: logging https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038417#M914986 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Well you could setup a second NMS (Like free Nagios) or a Trial version of Solarwinds to double check things.</P><P></P><P>Also if you have a router handy, you could configure IP SLA on it, to compare the results.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P></P><P>Farrukh</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:57:01 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/logging/m-p/1038417#M914986 Farrukh Haroon 2008-08-07T18:57:01Z