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Questions tagged [monitoring]

This tag is suitable for questions about or involving network monitoring as implemented on network devices or monitoring tools used by network professionals. Examples: IP SLA, SNMP, Netflow etc.

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How do you know if a Cisco switch is handling traffic well?

I have just read Jeremy's question about 2960-S and iSCSI traffic handling, which drove me to ask this question: We all have lots of switches deployed in distinct infrastructures, how can you know ...
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Daily, Weekly and Monthly Reports from Solarwinds?

I'm working with a Solar Winds NPM/NTA/IPAM golden-trio. I'd like to customize our reports to the point where I can received daily, weekly or monthly emails for various things - 95th percentile errors,...
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How can I capture traffic on a Brocade XMR, MLX, CER or CES?

How can I perform a packet analysis on traffic flowing through a Brocade XMR, MLX, CER or CES without having to install a specific software on any of the remote endpoints ?
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Hardware tap vs port mirroring - Any limitations?

I predominantly work in a Cisco environment and contemplating buying a network tap device for use with Wireshark. Can anyone provide the pros and cons from their experience between using network taps ...
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Cisco: monitoring users input

Is there a way to monitor a user's input on a cisco device? Clarification: the commands a user have entered as in configuration mode AND normal mode. (especialy normal mode. Configuration mode can ...

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