is Nagios what I need?

[Andrew Cruse]

nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
>    Dear all,
>     I work in a small institution belonging to a bigger
> organism which manages and monitors the overall network and connects
> it to the Internet. We suspect this organism is
> controlling/priorizing our network traffic since we have detected
> strange behaviours (non-simetric bandwidths, timeouts, slower
> bandwidh than expected...) when accesing from/to the Internet with
>  different services/protocols. We are looking for a network
> monitoring tool which is able to confirm that some network traffic
> control mechanism is being performed between our gateway and the
> Internet. My question is simple: is Nagios that tool? Is there any
> plugin giving this functionality? If not, could you tell me which
> tool have the feature we look for?

Nagios probably isn't going to be what you're looking for.  You'd do
better having a look at PCHAR or TTCP.

Andrew



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