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Broadband Monitoring

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  • 02-10-2008 9:19pm
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    OneBarrel
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭


    im using a community wireless broadband service, I need to monitor the usage and uptime and keep logs to show to the isp when they blame outage on my computer, anyone have any recommendations? I have a copy of solarwinds but cant see a tool which would do this....
    Tks


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    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,953 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    Smokeping maybe? or Nagios?


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    OneBarrel
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭OneBarrel


    Yikes, I'll have to run linux. I was hoping for a friendly winders proggy. No prob though i'll set up an ubuntu box and give it a whirl.
    Yhnaks for ur help.

    Moonbeam wrote: »
    Smokeping maybe? or Nagios?


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,216 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    OneBarrel wrote: »
    im using a community wireless broadband service, I need to monitor the usage and uptime and keep logs to show to the isp when they blame outage on my computer, anyone have any recommendations? I have a copy of solarwinds but cant see a tool which would do this....
    Tks

    SmokePing would be the thing to use, I use it alot in work myself and it maps network uptime, previous ping times etc pretty well. Also lets ya know of any routing loops or collisions in the network etc.


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    OneBarrel
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭OneBarrel


    Cheers Gents. Loaded Ubuntu on my xp machine with VirtualBox, installed nagios and smokeping, I'll let ye know how it goes as soon as i find out how to start the bloody proggies.


    Achilles wrote: »
    SmokePing would be the thing to use, I use it alot in work myself and it maps network uptime, previous ping times etc pretty well. Also lets ya know of any routing loops or collisions in the network etc.


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