scott@yuma.acns.colostate.edu (Scott Baily) (03/15/91)
I'm looking for an inexpensive way to monitor basic traffic characteristics for our 25+ ethernet subnetworks. It seems that PC's could be dedicated to counting frames, bytes, collisions, errors, etc. The current value of these accumulators could then be periodically retrieved via SNMP queries. I've seen references to public domain and shareware implementations of PC-based monitoring tools, and I imagine someone has ported the [ CMU/MIT/PSI/other ] SNMP agent to a DOS environment. I'm unaware of any (non-commercial) work toward combining these types of utilities, and I'm interested in doing just that. I would very much like to hear from those of you experienced with DOS-based monitoring or SNMP agent software. Which packages do you recommend for such a project. Which would you stay away from? What are realistic hardware requirements? Has anyone already done this? Many thanks in advance, Scott Baily Colorado State University