Re: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
Great tip there at #2 that I hadn't thought of. I'm going to have to jump in and do some fiddling in that area...
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Re: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
Yeah, the boss filter can be a problem depending on the structure and size of the organization. I'm definitely a fan of more granularity than just up/down in monitoring, but every organization is going...
View ArticleRe: Too good for QoS
We probebly "too good for QoS"And probebly 80% of the company I know if they keep the Core net without traffic congestion. The Voice has private VLAN and the the phone put some ToS or l2 .P marking but...
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Re: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
We have recently switched our monitoring toolset to Solarwinds and are hoping to use the trending to help us adjust our alerting to more closely match our environment.We are also going to try out Alert...
View ArticleInfinidb with Nprobe issue
Hi,I'm attempting to get nProbe setup so that it will export the flow traffic (logs) to my mysql database.The command that I tried was the following:nprobe -a -n 54.208.74.124:2055 -i eth0 -t 60 -d 15...
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One thing I have seen (with varying degrees of success) are event aggregators that attempt to do root cause analysis and suppress downstream events. e.g. if you lose a hub WAN link and are thus unable...
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That's a really good idea for a feature addition to NPM. Create sites, tie the sites together, create rules around site alerting. I would think it might be easy to define a "site" structure and have...
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Absolutely. I don't know how much capability SW NPM has in terms of grouping alerts or rolling them up in some way, so I threw it out there anyway. Even on a site basis though, if you can't reach the...
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How to Monitor Effectively
In my last post on the subject of what I called "monitoring-spam" I talked about what can happen when you install a solution like NPM and turn on all alerts--or at least leave on the out-of-the-box...
View ArticleIs QoS one of the killer OpenFlow apps?
In looking for ways to push QoS out throughout a large, distributed,multi-vendor environment, operational overhead is one of the largestcosts, both in people time and potentially capital expense...
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Seems like we are kind of flogging a dead horse when it comes to suppression of alerts,This was discussed 4 years ago here.Now that NPM supports groups, this should be easier to do.
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Guru is right about groups... dependencies has been helping quite a bit as well.
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I am sure it was, but 4 years ago I was not here...and Thwack was the sound made when my girlfriend got mad and hit me across the head. Thing's are much better now.I have a very informative and awesome...
View ArticleRe: Is QoS one of the killer OpenFlow apps?
I think QoS is definitely one of the key use cases that I've seen for Openflow on the more practical, "we might have it someday soon" side. I actually talked with the guys over at HP while I was at...
View ArticleRe: Is QoS one of the killer OpenFlow apps?
SomeClown wrote: My problem is I'm not convinced that we know what the future really holds for Openflow.Bingo. It's always fun to hope and get excited about new tech, but it can be a nightmare to...
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SomeClown wrote:* Do you monitor link saturation?* Do you monitor unicast routing tables?* Do you monitor multicast route tables?AbsolutelyNot yet.Not yet. With the scale of our environments (tens of...
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I'm in the habit of watching the Top 10 % Utilization very closely throughout the day. I care more about Data Center than WAN, so I'm looking at interface utilization for hosts more than other...
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+1. If you're concerned about capital costs and training, moving your entire campus to Openflow is probably a bad idea. If you're looking to benefit from Openflow's feature set, and understand that no...
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I just started reading up on SDN and OpenFlow is the way to go, especially for mixed vendor environments. I have work on mixed environment and OpenFlow would have been a nice feature to have. Can't...
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