The documentation on the Ntop.org page is pretty straightforward in term of configuring the Ntop server and what you will need in terms of device configuration.Regards,Mike
I would suggest the following:a) IP accounting b) Ntop (http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html)c) MRTG http://www.mrtg.org.Base MRTG will just graph out basic stats, but it is very configurable if you want to do the work.I think that the first two options mig...
I would also add a couple of others:a) LoadRunner is great for more complex, scripted tests.. (very flexible tool but they dont give it away)their site is http://www.mercuryinteractive.com/products/loadrunner/2) TestTCP (http://www.netcordia.com/tool...
Just in case you dont want to run a production tool on a windows box, I thought I would note that there are also several other syslog servers available on sourceforge.net. Cisco Works has a handy syslog server/parser.
Footnote: hopefully that was an example and you are not using public as your community string.. It is a good security practice to NOT use public/private for your community strings and put an ACL to restrict snmp to known snmp managers.