Audit and Baselining

[jamanso]

Hi All,

I have a team working in a projec to audit a mid-size network of Avaya/nortel Switches and Cicso WiFI networks.

We need to idetify tools (free or low cost) to help the team to monitor, inventory, site survey, collect information and issue a statistica baseline dor utilization on major interfaces of different periods of time.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Dominik]

Hi jamanso,

there are many different tools that you can use for your audit.
Maybe a good starting point would be OMD:

http://omdistro.org/

The OMD package includes the following tools:

    * nagios-3.2.3
          o nagios-plugins
          o nsca
          o check_nrpe
    * Shinken-0.6.99
    * nagvis
    * pnp4nagios
    * rrdtool/rrdcached
    * Check_MK
    * MK Livestatus
    * Multisite
    * dokuwiki
    * Thruk
    * Mod-Gearman
    * check_logfiles
    * check_oracle_health
    * check_mysql_health
    * jmx4perl
    * check_webinject
    * check_multi

You can write your own checks to get all the informations that you like via SNMP.
Another opene source possobility is to get the needed informations with a paerl script that
connects to the switches via ssh and execute some show commands at the CLI.

Both solution are open source, but you will have to do a lot of costomization work at your own.

If you want a quick solution that works out of the box maybe the Avaya ESM could be a solution, if it is not to expensive for your team.

Good Luck

[jamanso]

Hi Dominic,

Thanks for the comments, ESM we are using, and some of the tools in OMD, also.
but we lack more help to do the baseline, faster and easier to configure.

Also we need Ideas for the Wifi part (from Cisco).

Tks.