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Enabling snmp on Cisco 1760 and PIX 515e

I have a PIX 515e and there is a Cisco 1760 router that is managed by ISP. They have set up snmp on the router open to our outside IP on the PIX. What i want to do is to be able to get network stats off the router or i suppose off the PIX. I wanted to use netflow analyzer but the ISP tech said we would get billed 500 bucks if they enabled netflow. So,,, for the time being we are stuck with snmp. Can someone help me get some monitoring set up on our network??

Thanks a bunch,

Bill

grblades

What sort of things do you want to monitor?

MRTG (http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/) is a very good tool for graphing bandwidth usage.

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that1guy15

woops here is the link for configuring cisco snmp

http://www.netcraftsmen.net/welcher/papers/snmprouter.html

wallis34

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This tool looks like a good start. Thanks! Although i get bandwidth usage reports from ISP, this tool i suppose could be used to verify ISP reports which are what have initiated the need to monitor our network traffic. What i want to know is what kind of traffic and how much is going across our network. I have had exec's complain of lag on the VPN, at night when there should not be any traffic. And we are looking at upgrading our network, maybe adding a fractional bonded T-1,,,which vendors claim will be plenty of pipe, when now we have 1, T-1 that is acting slow when no one is supposed to be on it. So i would like to be able to monitor traffic, cause maybe there is something on our network running that is flooding it.