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Have tried Solarwinds product yet? You had better try Orion from Solarwinds
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Have tried Solarwinds product yet? You had better try Orion from Solarwinds

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Hi craigbeck<br />
Thank you for sharing.<br />
It seems porttracker is an appliance<br />
Is there any other cost effective solution ?<br />
<br />
Thanks
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Hi craigbeck
Thank you for sharing.
It seems porttracker is an appliance
Is there any other cost effective solution ?

Thanks

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PortTracker can be installed in VMWare, Samir.
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PortTracker can be installed in VMWare, Samir.

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Sir,<br />
I could not find the installation and downloads for evaluation.
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Sir,
I could not find the installation and downloads for evaluation.

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Hi There,<br />
<br />
Use cacti to monitor your network devices.<br />
Its free.<br />
You would have to do a bit of ground work on the installation part.<br />
Once done its an excellent tool to meet your requirements.
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Hi There,

Use cacti to monitor your network devices.
Its free.
You would have to do a bit of ground work on the installation part.
Once done its an excellent tool to meet your requirements.

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I'd really appreciate more suggestion on this thread<br />
Thanks
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I'd really appreciate more suggestion on this thread
Thanks

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Hi There,<br />
<br />
Have you tried cacti?
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I installed cacti and but this not that I am looking for.
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I installed cacti and but this not that I am looking for.

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You can try splunk or greylog as syslog collector
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You can try splunk or greylog as syslog collector

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if you want a lower cost alternative to PortTracker, then you could look at <a href="http://www.switchportmapper.com" rel="ugc">http://www.switchportmapper.com</a>&nbsp;it doesn't fit exactly what you are after, but might be closer than just checking syslogs...<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/switch-monitoring.html" rel="ugc">https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/switch-monitoring.html</a>&nbsp;can certainly alert on port down, not sure if it can also alert on port up<br />
<br />
The other alternative is opennms...
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if you want a lower cost alternative to PortTracker, then you could look at http://www.switchportmapper.com [http://www.switchportmapper.com] it doesn't fit exactly what you are after, but might be closer than just checking syslogs...

https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/switch-monitoring.html [https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/switch-monitoring.html] can certainly alert on port down, not sure if it can also alert on port up

The other alternative is opennms...

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Hi author,<br />
<br />
The mail notification option in cacti could definitely intimate as in when the port wen down and came UP.
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Hi author,

The mail notification option in cacti could definitely intimate as in when the port wen down and came UP.

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Thank guys for the suggestions<br />
We have PRTG I don't know if this can help.
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Thank guys for the suggestions
We have PRTG I don't know if this can help.

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PRTG can report on switch usage, but I'm not sure if it can give you port uptime or downtime.<br />
<br />
I would suggest that you pointed PRTG at one of your switches and had a go.
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PRTG can report on switch usage, but I'm not sure if it can give you port uptime or downtime.

I would suggest that you pointed PRTG at one of your switches and had a go.

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PRTG just provide the SNMP traffic sensor, it doesn't give any report port up/down.
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PRTG just provide the SNMP traffic sensor, it doesn't give any report port up/down.

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in which case I would suggest looking at opennms
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in which case I would suggest looking at opennms

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Hello Experts<br />
<br />
We have Cisco Catalyst Switches such 26960X,3560X,3750 and 6500 in our network<br />
<br />
&nbsp;I want to know the ports that are &nbsp;down for a long time or how long the port has been up. For example I should be able to tell anyone that port is up since 4/2/2016 &nbsp;12:23:23 PM<br />
<br />
We have a kiwi syslog server but it doesn't tell this information very quickly if I want to know for more than 30-40 switches<br />
<br />
I will appreciate any suggestions and help.<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance.
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Hello Experts

We have Cisco Catalyst Switches such 26960X,3560X,3750 and 6500 in our network

 I want to know the ports that are  down for a long time or how long the port has been up. For example I should be able to tell anyone that port is up since 4/2/2016  12:23:23 PM

We have a kiwi syslog server but it doesn't tell this information very quickly if I want to know for more than 30-40 switches

I will appreciate any suggestions and help.

Thanks in advance.

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