I’ve had some “amusing” times with my ntop server(s) lately… Ntop has been my tool of choice when it comes to monitoring network traffic for a couple years now. It generally does exactly what I need it to do. For the last year or so I’ve happily been running it from a CentOS Linux
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I manage a handful of WatchGuard Firebox Edge series firewalls at work. I’m generally pretty happy with them and have found that they do just what I need done. Lately I’ve been wrestling with some provider issues and have been trying to get some better data on sporadic network outages. That caused me to look closer The GigaOm site has an interesting article up about the upcoming 250GB/month cap from Comcast. I must say, as a Comcast internet user, that the whole thing makes me sad. But I also don’t think we ever get close to that cap so, to be honest, I’m not sure if I care or not. Should I? The When it comes to network management, I’ve always been more of a “let’s buy some switches and pull some cable” kind of guy. Actually managing, extending and supporting an existing network was never all that interesting to me. Now that it’s party of my job, however, I suddenly care a lot more than I used Today’s Challenge I use WhatsUp Gold at work to monitor our development and production environments. It works well for us and seems reasonably priced full featured (although I wouldn’t be adverse to looking into a comparable open source solution if anyone has suggestions). I’ve been using it for over 3 years now and hit |
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