Preferred tools to monitor firewalls for performance and capacity managment

[valdezs1]

What is your prefered tool for monitoring firewalls for performance and capacity managment?  We have Cisco's Health and Performance Monitor but it does not provide historcal or trending information.

Thank you,

Sara

[sean_evershed · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There are a few commercial products such as:

- Cisco Prime

- Manage Engine

- Solar Winds

There are also free products available such as Cacti and OpenNMS.

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Cheers

Sean

[Marvin Rhoads]

Sean hit the most commonly used ones.

I would only add that if you're looking to just add historical performance monitoring to your CSM / HPM setup then a simple Cacti installation is probably the easiest approach.