1 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM MeritPresentationHandout Monitoring and Managing Networks with Open Source Software Merit Joint Technical Staff Meeting Pete Hoffswell - Davenport University April 26 2005 Davenport University Networks 14,000+ Students and Staff 350+ device Cisco Network 50+ Novell Servers 30+ Microsoft Servers Centrally managed
2 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM Linux Operating Environment Full SuSE 9.1 Enterprise Runninig on a HP DL320 1U server http://www.suse.com (aka http://www.novell.com/linux) NMIS Network Management Information System, by Keith Sinclair Monitoring up/down Monitoring thresholds Overall network Metrics
3 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM Syslog view http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/
4 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM Cacti RRD Server Statistics Number of wifi users http://www.cacti.net WeatherMap
5 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM Network snapshot view Very popular with IT staff http://netmon.grnet.gr/weathermap/ IP Hawk IP Address Scanning and DNS association MySQL database backend http://iphawk.sourceforge.net/
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7 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM WAN Doc Automated documentation of Cisco configurations In conjunction with automated Cisco backup Online view of Cisco Configs Sorted Syslog General Cisco Sanity Checking http://www.wandoc.net/
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9 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM Wiki Online Documentation Team Collaboration Dynamic Disaster Recovery Plan
10 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ Local Area Network and Wide Area Network resources are managed by PeteHoffswell and IgnacioPerez. Within these pages you can find out about LAN, WAN, Security and UPS infrastructures. [[TableOfContents]] = Starting Points = Great starting points for Network communications infrastructure are our monitoring systems.
11 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM * WeatherMap - Current Network "Weather" * WhatsUpGold (on ["Monitor"]) - Network Up/Down monitoring * [http://networker.network.davenport.edu Networker] (on ["Networker"]) - Network Documentation Website * WanDoc - Cisco Device Configuration Documentation * CategoryCisco - Detailed Cisco infrastructure documentation = Servers = Lan``Wan Services maintains the following servers: * ["Networker"] Network Management Linux Server * ["Netter"] Network Security Linux Server * ["ICMS/ICMS-East"] Internet Content Management Server East Gateway * ["ICMS/ICMS-West"] Internet Content Management Server West Gateway * ["ACS"] Access Control Server * CampusManager Wifi Access Control Server = Network Devices = Lan``Wan Services maintains many Cisco devices running all LANs WAN and Internet connectivity. Detailed information can be found at CategoryCisco = Lan Wan Pages = [[FullSearch()]] L2Trace layer 2 traceroute, showing router AND switch hops to a node By Sasa Milic Web CGI front end
12 of 12 4/19/2005 11:46 AM http://www.geocities.com/milicsasa/tools/l2trace/ Future Projects NetFlow data analysis Ntop - http://www.ntop.org/ Log monitoring and alerting swatch - http://swatch.sourceforge.net/ Network Security pla honeypots nessus last edited 2005-04-19 09:52:04 by PeteHoffswell