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From: allan@frisbee.cisco.com (Allan Leinwand)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Network Monitors
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Date: 10 Sep 90 15:06:37 GMT
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In article <1990Sep8.194549.25555@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
david@cwlim.INS.CWRU.Edu writes:
|> I have a network here on campus which ranges from TCP/IP to Novell and I am 
|> interested in monitoring and recording the usage and load statistics.  I 
|> would like to see what the network load is at different times of the
day and 
|> what machines monopolize the networks time. 

Hello Dave,

   We here at cisco Systems have a network management package that can
help you 
find the load on various devices throughout the network and store this
information in a database.  Of course, you  must have an SNMP agent on all the
devices which you care to monitor.  The package is called "NetCentral"
and currently runs on a Sun.

!> I would also like to know what 
|> services are being used, but I don't believe that can be done at this
level. 

   This is a bit trickier, but provided this information is available
via SNMP, NetCentral can do this for you.  If this information cannot be
retrieved via SNMP, the most efficient way to do this may be using your
Sniffer.  HP has
a protocol analyzer out, called the HP4972, which has software which
does this function for you.  Perhaps you just need the right software
for the Sniffer.
 
|> I have tools such as the 
|> Network General Sniffer, but it doesn't have the memory or power to
accommodate
|> such a large volume of data and give the information I need.  Does anyone
|> anywhere know of such a package or combination of packages that would
|> be able to do this?  Thanks for any help....

   Again, our NetCentral may have the power you need,  It can run  on a
SparcStation and this should give you the ummph in processing you
desire.  Further, it's relational database can store as much data as you want.

   Please contact us at customer-service@cisco.com or 1-415-326-1941


Thanks,

Allan Leinwand
cisco Systems
leinwand@cisco.com