Network Performance Monitoring Software

[ssmokinjoe]

Hi, I am looking for some software that will allow me to monitor LAN/WAN traffic. We are in a Cisco switched network environment. The only thing that I have found so far is a product from Solarwinds. I would like to use something from Cisco if possible... Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

-Joe

[rmushtaq]

You can use NAM module for this.

[mfilser]

Hi Joe.

IMHO, Cisco has not an own product to monitor LAN/WAN traffic (except NAM of course).

In the actual NMS-Solution, the Real-Time-Monitor (NetScout) is available, but it's an EOA-Product.

For myself, I'm using several tools, to monitor the traffic:

MRTG and JFFNMS (Freeware SNMP-Tools) are a little bit tricky to configure.

PRTG (www.paessler.com) is a nice Windowstool; very easy to use and configure (about 50 $)

TheGuard (www.realtech.de) is a full NMS-Software and includes a very good performance tool but not really cheap! (about 16k Euro)

eHealth (www.concord.com) is a pure monitoring tool for performance and availability, very good (I think, the best) but very expensive :-(

Hope this helps

Bye

Markus

[bbecker]

Joe,

I think the Solarwinds Orion product is very good. We had Concord and I was able to buy a full Orion server for less then I was paying maintenace only with Concord.

I'd would recommend it to anyone.

BB