How to monitor network health?
Hey guys,
We have the need to measure network health from our clients' LAN to our datacenter and vice-versa. We'd like to gather QoS, UDP, and TCP stats (jitter, RTT, loss, etc). The network ...
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Hi Rodger -
By no means a robust solution, but perhaps of interest since you mentioned option 4) above: it is possible to generate NetFlow data from pretty much any linux distro using a tool called fprobe. We used it in some of our testing. It simply will capture whatever traffic it sees flowing over a wire and export NetFlow data based on it.
It looks like nProbe is also an option, but I'm not familiar with it. It looks like it has a lot more documentation associated with it.
Jeff
