The Best Way Forward?

[Robert Jackson]

I've been looking at Nagios on and off for a while now without ever
implementing anything. However I would now like to get something going
live that would allow us to monitor our network better. The current
scenario is that in our office basement server/comms room we have 4 x
Cisco 2950G Series switches which we use as core switches (in a fail
over configuration) for our server/firewall connections. These switches
then connect to 2 fibre media convertors. These convertors connect to
the rest of the building network via a fibre cable which runs up the
length of the building terminating on each of the 3 floors of our
office. Thus every floor operates independently of any other. On each
floor there is a fibre transceiver which connects to a Cisco 2950 Series
switch (not G series).

 

My questions are:

1.        What is the best setup to monitor the failover status of the
core switches as well as bandwidth over the uplinks?

2.        What is the best setup to monitor the activity/bandwidth over
the fibre transceivers which are connected to each floor's switch uplink
port?

3.        I've also had a quick look at Fully Automated Nagios (FAN). Do
you think this would be the best way to get started or building
something from scratch?

4.        If using FAN is not a good idea, which O/S would be the best
to run Nagios on (we use Solaris and RHEL mostly)?

5.        If using FAN is not a good idea, which add-ons etc. would be
useful for visuals (GUI, graphs etc.) and configuration?

 

Really sorry for all the questions (there will probably be more at some
point). Many thanks for your time.

 

Regards,

Rab.

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Robert Jackson                                  Phone: +44 (0) 141 332
7999

IT Manager                                           Fax: +44 (0) 141
331 2820

Walker Martyn Ltd

1 Park Circus Place                            Email:
rab at walkermartyn.co.uk <mailto:rab at walkermartyn.co.uk> 

Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland                   Web:
http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk <http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk/> 

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