On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Brian wrote: > Is there any cute tools for aiding the configuration like webmin or > anything? Are the sample files "good enough" to get it working in > short enough order to mess around with it? Yeah, there's a few tools to config it. Check netsaint.org, they list them. All of 'em kind of sucked last time I tried them though. The samples give you WAY more than enough info. It's not that it's hard to set up a single server; it's just hard to maintain the config for a few hundred monitor items. > I need a tool (or suite of tools, if need be) to monitor things. For > one, I need to monitor the traffic and find out why our 100 Mbit > switched network is SO FREAKING SLOW. I also need a tool to monitor > various pieces of networking hardware (servers, switches, routers, > etc) so if a link goes down, we can troubleshoot it quickly. I think > Netsaint will accomplish the latter, complete with pretty GUI. Any > ideas on the former? I'm messing with Ethereal, seems to do a nice > job at telling me what's out there at least. You could try out OpenNMS, but it'd probably be overkill. Learn netsaint. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500