[Sussex] Moots

[Steve Dobson]

Lee

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 11:23 +0100, Lee W wrote:
> I was also wondering if anyone has done a talk on Network Monitoring before?

I think that is a great idea.

> This is my big buzz topic at present so I would be happy to give a talk 
> in a few months if anyone is interested (just to do my bit).

I've book you in for August 25th.  Enough time to prepare?

> Currently the ideas I have are to describe a few of the packages 
> available (Nagios, Cacti, MRTG + RRDTool) and how they might be used but 
> if anyone would like another tool discussed I would be happy to research it.

I would suggest you also look at classics like netstat and tcpdump but
if the functionality is better in one of the other packages then as it
is your presentation they do was you feel.

> This isn't just for businesses, home users may also find it useful for 
> checking that their website host is sticking to there 99.9% uptime 
> gurantee or so you can keep an eye on how reliable your broadband/ADSL 
> connection is (to name a couple of ideas).

Network monitoring is a useful tool.  How else can you chack if you're
using the correct ports or find out where in the chain something is
going wrong.

Steve