RE: FW: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Internet Exchange - Tanzania

[<gipmanr@mtn.co.ug>]

I think that we should be able to monitor individual ports so we know if an
isp needs to upgrade it's pipe to the IX.

The tools we use is cricket and cricket uses like mrtg snmp to gather the
info needed. It give you a historical view of the traffic that can be
accumulated if needed. BerklyDB is the backend for this.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mtinka@africaonline.co.sz] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:50 PM
To: Rob Gipman; kenneth@cfi.co.ug
Cc: nambalec@bushnet.net; lug@linux.or.ug; techies@uixp.co.ug
Subject: RE: FW: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Internet Exchange - Tanzania


owner-techies@uixp.co.ug wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> Good point!
> 
> Also possible if we know what isp is on what port and the switch can 
> handle snmp
> 
> Rob

Indeed!

If that becomes too difficult, you could look into the HP equivalent for SPAN
(Switch Port Analyser) and/or RMON (Remote Monitoring), so the stats server
picks up the entire traffic running through the switch, as a cumulative
figure for all members, rather than monitoring each port independently.

Or, you could find out what SNMP MIBs are available from HP, so you have more
latitude in generating a single image of the state of traffic, for the entire
switch.

Regards,

Mark Tinka
Technical Manager, Africa Online Swaziland



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