Monitor and Troubleshoot your Network with MRTG and NTOP

[Peter Nguyen]

I have a long Thanksgiving week-end, not on-call, kind of boring after watching football and my team won on Friday, so I started this blog.  My observation in forum lately about network monitoring, I found people have many different opinions about what is the best software to monitor and troubleshoot your network.   Well, if you are low on budget, nothing is better than open-source software.   I downloaded, and installed Backtrack, MRTG-RRD and Ntop and wrote down the steps in this blog. 

Enjoy!
Peter

[Michael McNamara]

Thanks for the post Peter.

If you are looking to add some intelligence to your SYSLOG solution have a look at Marcus Ranum's paper on the topic;

http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/archives/logging-notes.pdf

Cheers!