Rohit Mehta on 10 Jul 2015 11:15:37 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Basic network monitoring and link quality software

I started writing a ruby-monitoring tool back in the day.  Then I abandoned it for Nagios, and now I love Nagios.

For just testing the uplink though I would think a cron-job or a loop that just did a micro benchmark every X number of minutes should be sufficient.  

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
Eric,

Ahhh, I remember this.  See, I told you my brain is on something else right now.  I'll pass this along, along with Clay's link too.  That had some screenshots.


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From: "Eric Lucas" <eric@lucii.org>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 1:21:38 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Basic network monitoring and link quality software

At Central a couple of months back I recall CJ found a list of "nagios-like" software in Wikipedia.
...and 3 clicks later:

Let us know what you discover.

Eric

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
Quick question, since my brain is on other things right now...

A friend of mine, due to some Comcast issues, wants to monitor his internet bandwidth- not just for availability but if possible, also for quality (i.e. am I getting the bandwidth I am paying for).

I know Nagios is the super tool for system/network management but I'm personally not a fan of it- part of that if because I've previously written my own system (i.e. personal bias) but most of it is because whenever I've looked at Nagios, I've been disheartened by what in my view is a system that is overly complicated to do things that are rudimentary.

The question is, is Nagios the only tool for this or is there something out there that just does link availability (and quality) in a simple and straightforward way with the ability to log the data.  My friend is willing to wrap his own tool (he's a Ruby programmer) but if something basic is out there, he's willing to take a look at it.


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