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SNMP Program

is there a good, free SNMP monitoring program out there?

i'd like to monitor a few of my devices (firewalls) from my PC.

i tried the free version of PRTG Network Monitor but it seems that there are too many options for me.

is there a basic/simple program out there?

thanks.

giltjr

SNMP can see a LOT of things. What specifically do you want to monitor?

Interface utlization
CPU usage
memory usage
disk usage
uptime

More .... ?

MRTG will monitor the network utilization on interface by default. You can modify it to monitor anything else that you can see with SNMP.

OpManager (http://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/) is free for a small number of devices. But I doubt that it is really any simpler than PRTG.

tomdlgns

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Sorry, forgot all about that, you are right.

I just want to monitor bandwidth.

Rick_O_Shay

I don't use it myself but only because I have been fortunate enough to have good vendor tools but I believe Nagios will do what you want.

Nagios www.nagios.org

giltjr

Nagios will do it, so will MRTG (http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/).

I have not used Nagios, but I have heard a lot of good things about it.

MRTG is real simple and easy to setup.

The issue with both of these is they are assuming that they are running on Linux. They can monitoring anything, but they do expect to be running on Linux.

I have seen Nagios doc on how to setup on Windows, however it has you install Cygwin (a Linux type enviroment on Windows).

I have also seen MRTG binaries for Windows.

tomdlgns

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this is a windows 7 box.

not sure how i feel about installing a linux type environment within windows.

giltjr

Well you can go here:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/3party.en.html

And the 1st two links under "Setup Instructions and Installer" are to MRTG for Windows servers.

You can also go here:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-nt-guide.en.html

And it has the steps to get MRTG up and running under Windows.

tomdlgns

ASKER

i'd rather have something that was designed for windows.

thanks, though.

giltjr

PRTG or OpManage from ManageEngine (http://www.manageengine.com)

However they are designed to go beyond just monitoring bandwith utilization (actully Nagios does too and MRTG can but MRTG requires more customization to do that).

tomdlgns

ASKER

hmm, they dont seem to be free?

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