[Xymon] network traffic monitoring

[Jerald Sheets]

Kris,  I'm a 20-year admin and it took a lot of research into MIBs, MIB
data, writing my own wrappers and the like to get mine working.  It
definitely required some work, and there are no simple documentation
efforts out there for DEVMON.

If there is, I'm going to be pissed because I asked for it on this very
list!

:-D

--jms

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Jerald M. Sheets jr.



On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM, W.J.M. Nelis <Wim.Nelis at nlr.nl> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>   MRTG is easy to integrate with Xymon…. I had mine setup and running in
> less than five minutes since my distro had an MRTG RPM readily available.
> Not trying to say anything against Devmon but the MRTG integration is a no
> brainer.  I would say go back to that if you think it will do what you want.
>
>
> MRTG will monitor throughput only. One can tweak MRTG to measure two other
> things in stead of input and output, but the options are limited compared
> to Devmon. Thus if one wants to monitor only throughput, MRTG will do well.
> If one wants to monitor a number of other parameters as well, for instance
> temperature, memory utilisation or stack status, Devmon is a better option.
>
> Regards,
>   Wim Nelis.
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] *On
> Behalf Of *Kris Springer
> *Sent:* Friday, December 06, 2013 2:58 AM
> *To:* W.J.M. Nelis; Xymon MailingList
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] network traffic monitoring
>
>
>
> Does anyone have an easy installation guide for devmon on Ubuntu?  I
> installed it and got the SNMP_Session perl stuff installed, but I'm not
> adept enough at linux or perl to get devmon to start for some reason.  It's
> got a start script prebuilt for RedHat but that doesn't work for me and I
> don't know which paths to edit to make it work.  Even if I do get it
> running it looks like I'll need some advanced configs with OID's that I
> have no idea about.  Devmon was suggested by previous posts so I thought
> I'd give it a shot.  MRTG seems way easier than this and doesn't require
> OID's.  Should I just go back to that?
>
>
>   Thank you.
>
> *Kris Springer*
>
>
>
> *=======================*
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> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:23 PM, W.J.M. Nelis <Wim.Nelis at nlr.nl> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  That's great for the monitoring server, but I want it for all the
> network devices and servers that I'm monitoring.  I'm going to get 'devmon'
> going and see if that will work for us.
>
>
>
>
> When installing Devmon, consider installing the patches on the SourceForge
> Devmon page as well. Although the latest svn version dates of last
> September, a number of improvements (patches) submitted in the last two
> years are not yet included in the distribution version of Devmon.
>
> Kind regards,
>   Wim Nelis.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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