Thursday, May 19, 2005

Free Network Monitoring Tool

Torrus can be used as a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) collector. A single server can handle a few hundred network devices and it's network discovery engine supports multiple vendors and device types.

It can collect information such as SAA agents, temperature sensors, CPU and memory statistics.

The key feature of Torrus is it's capability to monitor Cisco class-based quality of service (QoS), which is very useful in a network with VoIP devices. All of this is done in the system via the http web interface.

This software can be found at torrus.org

Thanks to Cisco's First Quarter 2005 Packet Magazine for this information.

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