What is the best way to monitor bandwidth usage in our network of 300 workstations?
What is reasonable to expect with regard to a Service Level Agreement from my Internet Service Provider? What would be the ideal way to monitor our bandwidth usage, in order to produce monthly reports with regard to usage?
I work in a remote community as the Network Administrator for a large school. My predecessor currently works for the community and runs a business which delivers Internet service to the school. There is not much "goodwill" currently in our relationship. Our agreement currently consists of, we are required to pay 30% of the cost of two T1 lines that come into the community. Internet is delivered via cable modems.
I work in a remote community as the Network Administrator for a large school. My predecessor currently works for the community and runs a business which delivers Internet service to the school. There is not much "goodwill" currently in our relationship. Our agreement currently consists of, we are required to pay 30% of the cost of two T1 lines that come into the community. Internet is delivered via cable modems.
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Yes, all I want is bandwidth monitoring.
MRTG looks good, although the documentation seems all oriented towards a LInux/Unix environment. I'm a Windows environment.
8e6.com looks good too, although I haven't seen prices yet.
I think all leave this issue open for a few more hours to see if anybody else has a different product to suggest. Thanks in advance!
MRTG looks good, although the documentation seems all oriented towards a LInux/Unix environment. I'm a Windows environment.
8e6.com looks good too, although I haven't seen prices yet.
I think all leave this issue open for a few more hours to see if anybody else has a different product to suggest. Thanks in advance!
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Here is a summary of the recommendations:
1. PRTG (two recommendations) - http://www.paessler.com/prtg
2. Websense - http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/Express/
3. 8e6 - http://www.8e6.com/network-security/internet-filtering/web-use-reporting.html
4. mrtg - http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
5. ntop-xtra - http://www.openxtra.co.uk/freestuff/ntop-xtra.php
6. iPrism - http://iprism.stbernard.com/
7. NetFlow Analyzer - http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/netflow/
1. PRTG (two recommendations) - http://www.paessler.com/prtg
2. Websense - http://www.websense.com/global/en/ProductsServices/Express/
3. 8e6 - http://www.8e6.com/network-security/internet-filtering/web-use-reporting.html
4. mrtg - http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
5. ntop-xtra - http://www.openxtra.co.uk/freestuff/ntop-xtra.php
6. iPrism - http://iprism.stbernard.com/
7. NetFlow Analyzer - http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/netflow/
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I'm currently on hold waiting to talk to a technician at Websense support. Is it Websense Express that I'd likely be looking at, for (up to) 250 workstations? This seems likely a very heavy-duty solution, requiring its own Windows Server 2003 server with 2 NIC cards, 85 GB of hard disk space and 2 GB of RAM. I assume it would make my existing firewall (a Watchdog product) redundant.