Network Management Tool

[syntkemin]

Hi Guys,

My company has several access switches in the network ( Catalyst C3560X-48PF and C3750G-48TS). We use Cacti to monitor them; It does the job; I can see the traffic and when they go down. However, I’d like to have something better than Cacti.

What do you guys use for monitoring access switches? I want to monitor layer 2 and 3 altogether.

For example, sometimes, we have very high traffic in the network, and it takes hours to find out the source/host that is doing it because Cacti doesn’t help too much.

Switch models:

Catalyst C3560X-48PF-S

Catalyst C3560-48PS

Catalyst C3750G-48TS

Thanks.

[Kasun Bandara]

some good tools are solarwinds and PRTG

[Kasun Bandara]

some good tools are solarwinds and PRTG monitor

[balaji.bandi]

i worked on Many tools example Opensource and paid version.

Opensource :

MRTG

Cacti

LebreNMS

Paid and Free

PRTG some point

ManageEngine

LogicMonitor

Solarwinds

Personally for Longterm i build Opensource based tool which help you make your own way, if you have local expertise.