If you build a Network Monitoring system you will find out that there is a lot of information that you can get via the SNMP Protocol. You have to make some choices on what you want to monitor and when you want to receive a notification about a certain event and how you want to receive it. Start by making a basic monitoring plan, think about what you want to see: For example: Disc space usage on Servers, SAN or NAS devices CPU usage … [Read more...]
I like Hewlett Packard for their whole range of products including their network printers. Now a days it is almost difficult to get a printer that is NOT network ready... but for a nice stable network without to much collisions and traffic towards those network printers there are some features that you might want to close down on those printers. Hewlett Packard and other manufactures support several protocols on their network interface. To … [Read more...]
The basic structure for your Network Documentation is as follows: Section 1 - Non Network Information Section 2 - Network Globals Section 3 - Network Infrastructure Section 4 - Network Devices Section 5 - Peripherals Section 6 - Software Section 7 - Administrative Section 8 - Service Level Agreements SLA Section 9 - Diagrams Each of these objects will be reflected in the page’s that you can select from the top menu. You need to have … [Read more...]
The Network Documentation Process always starts with an inventory of your assets. That means you have to identify every piece of hardware that builds and connects to your network. To do that you want to use a tool that will ping and list all the IP addresses in your network and possibly give more information like the name and operating system of that device. You will find out that there are a lot of tools to do this, but my favorite one to … [Read more...]
Monitoring a computer network requires thinking and planning before implemanting a monitoring system. Think about what to monitor You could start monitoring every aspect of your network, but does that make sense? Do you really need to know if a printer is up every minute? Or is a check one an hour enough. Is checking the CPU load on you main server once a day enough or do you want to keep that und a close watch? Or do you want to know the … [Read more...]