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TCPView output to log files?

Can TCPView keep log files of daily port connections? I'd like to read log files every other week to check for any network hacking attempts. If TCPView cannot do this, is there any other free utility ...
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Ganglia network stats incorrect

I am using ubuntu 10.04LTS. The Ganglia on all of my nodes is not reporting the network usage correctly. There is a fairly large amount of fluctuation on the actual network, but on ganglia it seems ...
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What tools should I use to assess bandwidth for web server farm..?

I'm contemplating moving datacentre and I need to know the size of pipe I'll need in order to get a quote. Currently I'm charged on GBs of traffic per month (currently about 42GB inbound - so ...
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Open source DCIM stack?

Our 500-server data center is growing quickly and my manager has started investigating using a specialized Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) package to help manage constraints. DCIM ...
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How do I know if my site-to-site vpn connection is being saturated?

We've got a T1-internet connection with a Cisco ASA 5510 appliance in our small office. We have a site-to-site vpn connection from our office to a remote data center. Question(s): How can I find ...
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Monitored network at the office [closed]

Network security is not exactly my area of expertese so I apologize if I've phrased this question wrong or if it's already been asked somewhere: If I am on a network that is monitored, like the ...
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Hardware requirements to monitor a larger (3000 device) network

I'm currently evaluating monitoring software for (by my standards) a larger network expected to grow to around 3000 devices. I'm finding data on the hardware requirements for scaling hard to come by. ...
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Cluster saturation

I'm looking at running a NoSQL cluster and the question of tcp/ip saturation came up. I'm wondering if a flat network neighborhood topology mightn't alleviate internode congestion. The idea is to have ...
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What is the good freely available Network Mapping software? [closed]

I'm looking for a freely availabe network mapping tool. From Wikipedia's list of Notable network mapping softwares: I found that Lumar's IPSonar is awesome! But unfortunately its not available for ...
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Suggestions for projects related to network monitoring, documentation, collaboration [closed]

I am looking for any projects integrating functions like monitoring, management and documentation of network/servers/services. Currently using Orion and Nagios for tasks on monitoring and alerts, ...
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Simple remote administration agent software [closed]

I am looking for a simple remote control, agent based software to perform simple commands to geographically dispersed workstations. I am looking for something similar to Microsoft Intune. I am open ...
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How to monitor bandwidth on host which uses bridge-util and virtualization

I am running a debian squeeze box with bridge-util and LXC containers. I guess this is a 2 part request. I would like to know what my total bandwidth usage is I would like to see it broken down by ...
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iOS: finding out which web hosts/URLs does an application access [closed]

I'd like to know what host/hosts does an iOS app access when it's running. For example, if it was a translation app, I'd like to be given a list like "translate.google.com, ...
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How to transform Windows 7 in a “network router”? [closed]

I want to have more control about my home network. Actually it is formed by 2 Win7 PCs + 1 WinXP PC + 1 ADSL Router. The ADSL Router built in software gives low control about the network. I want ...
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Graphical Ping utility with logging

I need to continuously test the quality of the connection between hosts, and I would like to use ping for that, in order to see WHEN the problem occurs. It should provide LOG of the pinging, with ...
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Why so many ARP requests on the network with Windows 7 (using Network Monitor)?

I've read that it's fairly normal to have several ARP requests per second on the network, but was curious if someone could elaborate on the "why" I would have so many versus not? Over the course of 4 ...
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fedora default traffic monitor tool

On a fedora server i have access using a ssh connection. As a regular user, how can I see what traffic is involved into the server? I don't have root rights, and I'll like to learn from the default ...
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How do I deal with the removal/eradication of an unknown worm on our network?

TL;DR I'm pretty sure our small network has been infected by some sort of worm/virus. It seems to only be afflicting our Windows XP machines, however. Windows 7 machines and Linux (well, yea) ...
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Is there a pingdom-like service that has hosts in Asia and South America

I am looking for a remote monitoring service, similar to pingdom, that has more global reach. Right now pingdom only has coverage for North America and Europe. Does anyone know of a competing service ...
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Linux: grep-able monitoring of network traffic and number of connections

I need to collect certain monitoring data every minute and send it to a monitoring server. The source of that data must be parseable using standard Linux tools. For example, to monitor number of ...
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Check incoming network traffic in real time?

Is there a way I can monitor incoming network traffic in real time on my server? Preferably in terms of *bps Running Ubuntu
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Easiest way to install Packetfence or similar onto my network

We have a simple small business windows network with very basic internal security. We are a small college and want to provide access to the internet to your student body, but not to the internal ...
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Alternative to Ntop on FreeBSD

ntop is a great tool for recording network throughput statistics for FreeBSD based firewalls. The statistics can be displayed as graphs using a web browser. Ntop, however, has the limitation that it ...
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Tools to monitor bandwith (outgoing) on my ArchARM NAS/Server?

I have been having some problems with my router last few days, and in the process of narrowing down the problem, I found that while I wasn't using my home network explicitly I was having upto 1GB of ...
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ICMP Data Field Modified - What does it Mean?

Normal ICMP Data fields are composed of a pretty standard 32 byte string of alphabet characters. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwabcdefghi I have captured a series of ICMP echo requests using WireShark with ...
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Monitoring a tcp port using Zenoss

it's possible to monitor a general purpose service, listening on port 5896, i.e.: tcp://production.enterprise.com:5896 I just want know if this service is alive or offline, like a fast "nc -zv ...
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Strange network traffic on my dedicated server. How to find out what is causing it

I noticed a trange outgoing traffic in my dedicated server. I'd like to know how could I find out what is the reason to this. One day traffic One week traffic As you can see, there are bursts of ...
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Nagios and other network monitoring software [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What tool do you use to monitor your servers? I used the Nagios as a network monitoring software to check server's services status about 4-5 years ago. Now i need to ...
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Real benefits of tcp TIME-WAIT and implications in production environment

SOME THEORY I've been doing some reading on tcp TIME-WAIT (here and there) and what I read is that it's a value set to 2 x MSL (maximum segment life) which keeps a connection in the "connection ...
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detect weak encryption and outdated protocols

I'm looking for software that helps detecting applications that use weak encryption or outdated protocols in a central place. Sorry if that sounds vague. Maybe an example will help. Let's take a ...
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Software to diagnose (ping) a network over 24h?

We've been experiencing a lot of problems with our current office's internet connection lately: slowdowns, packet losses, huge ping times, etc. (Un)fortunately, this is not happening all the day, ...
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How to diagnose severe network problems in small network?

We have fairly small network with managed and unmanaged switches (Netgear GS748T, Linksys SLM2024, DGS-1008D, DES-1008D, DES-1026G, SRW224G4), about 8-10 hosts Hyper-V with multiple virtual machines, ...
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Nagios plug-in check_snmp receives NO SNMP data from a CISCO Router

I have tried setting up Nagios on Ubuntu 10.10, successfully installed and can login to web interface, I am however stuck on configuring snmp or I am doing something wrong here, i have followed ...
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Monitoring OSPF links with SNMP

I am looking for a way to monitor OSPF links using SNMP. I have attempted to try to poll the Neighbor State of a specific peer, looking for a value of Full, and going into alarm once the value is no ...
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Hiding hosts in Nagios

I would like to monitor a few hundred hosts using Nagios, yet I only want the switch fabric to show up in the statusmap.cgi. Is there a way to prevent a host from showing up in the status map, yet ...
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CentOS monitoring traffic on port

I am looking for a tool to monitor traffic on some ports of a CentOS server. On this server each service runs on a port from 3000 to 3050 and I would like to compare traffic consumption on these ...
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IBM x3500 Server managament/monitoring tool

I took over monitoring an older IBM x3500 7977 server and i don't have much knowledge of IBM servers. I'm looking for the equivalent of Dell Server Administrator from IBM, just to monitor and alert on ...
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Finding malicious network usage in a LAN

I manage a small LAN (30 computers, mix of Linux, Windows, and Macs). Transferring a 100MB file to a local server (i.e. in the office, not on the Internet) used to take me about a couple minutes, but ...
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How To Setup “Performance Monitor” As A Bandwidth Counter?

I have managed to create a Counter for bytes/second on Windows 2008 R2. How can I actually count the bandwidth for my machine (inbound and outbound)? I am after the effects similar to DU meter. I ...
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estimating network capacity on AWS/EC2

I have a rapidly growing (10Ms calls/day) web service currently on one EC2 app instance running ubuntu10.04+ apache + APC + memcache (+ several master/slaves mysql farms on other instances). I ...
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Monitoring Tool for monitoring the health/uptime of my servers in the cluster (windows)

Are there any recommendation on free monitoring tool for windows? We don't need sophisticated tools. We just need to monitor the "health/status" and uptime of our database, load balancer and server. ...
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Finding the executable sending packets to a specific IP Address?

We host Game Servers off of Windows Server 2008 machines, and we just received a report that one of our customers is using their server to do some type of UDP attack. The person being attacked ...
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Advanced traceroute tool for Linux

Is there comparable alternative for PingPlotter Pro on Linux? I'm looking for traceroute tool that has ability to display traceroute data of each nodes along the route in nice timeline graph.
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Unix software to continuously monitor packet loss

I'm looking for some software to monitor packet loss or packet retries. Preferably something that continuously monitors vs. a testing approach and preferably free. My server's OS is debian. I'm ...
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Ntop alternative that stores persistent data

I'm looking for a tool to passively listen on a mirroring port in order to collect statistical data about network bandwidth usage, protocols, hosts, etc. Ntop is great. But once restarted it (almost) ...
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Best graphing tool to monitor mem/cpu/traf? [closed]

I am using Rackspace Cloud, oddly they don't have any way to measure your resource utilization considering it is a cloud service so I must find the best way to measure this so I can see when I should ...
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How passively monitor for tcp packet loss? (Linux)

How can I passively monitor the packet loss on TCP connections to/from my machine? Basically, I'd like a tool that sits in the background and watches TCP ack/nak/re-transmits to generate a report on ...
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can an ISP keep track of websites/links a customer visit/download? [closed]

I know in a home network, there are softwares that can monitor the TCP conversation occurred in the network and are capable of recording the download links sent from a computer. But my question is ...
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On Linux, how can I tell which process is sending Ethernet packets?

I'm running gkrellm which shows that some process on my Debian Linux system is writing approx 500KB/s to eth0. I'd like to find out which process it is. I know a little bit about netstat, but it ...
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Can nTop process sFlow data to reveal source and destination to be reviewed visually?

I tried rephrasing the question title about five times before arriving on this title. Does nTop have the "built-in facilities" to process sFlow data so that a graph of source and destination of ...

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