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Madunix,<br />
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As I have seen most people use Cacti instead of MRTG.If you use Cacti then you need not to use MRTG anymore.Because, Cacti has more features than MRTG including traffic graph.Is there any reason to use Cacti &amp;&nbsp;MRTG both ?
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Madunix,

As I have seen most people use Cacti instead of MRTG.If you use Cacti then you need not to use MRTG anymore.Because, Cacti has more features than MRTG including traffic graph.Is there any reason to use Cacti & MRTG both ?

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Hello, am currently researching tools to monitor our small network, around 200 devices in total. Would be seeking a monitoring tool that could report on network utilisation, traffic type, interface errors etc.<br />
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One product have look at is Solarwinds network performance manager. This looks to meet our needs but am wondering if there are other products out there that would match it while proving e.g. easier to use, lower cost or greater feature set?<br />
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Thanks.
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Hello, am currently researching tools to monitor our small network, around 200 devices in total. Would be seeking a monitoring tool that could report on network utilisation, traffic type, interface errors etc.

One product have look at is Solarwinds network performance manager. This looks to meet our needs but am wondering if there are other products out there that would match it while proving e.g. easier to use, lower cost or greater feature set?

Thanks.

Solarwinds alternatives?

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