Monitoring a switch

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:30:25 -0600, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it>  
wrote:

> Hello.
> I'm looking for some software which can monitor a SNMP-enabled switch.
> Sure I can use Cacti to monitor bandwidth of every single port... or  
> Nagios to warn me if some port gets some defined amount of traffic for a  
> defined amount of time...
>
> I was wondering though, if there was some more specific tool which might  
> be faster to setup and would do some magic automatically, like computing  
> the total traffic flowing through, identifying bottlenecks, etc...
>

Observium might be something worth looking into. They generally want you  
to run the the latest commit to their svn repo, so I wouldn't recommend  
the version in ports right now.

http://www.observium.org