Roundtable: Monitoring

Roundtable notes, part 21

"How do you know what's happening with your network?"

"A phone call tells you things are down.  A lot of phone calls tell you it's really bad."
DyneDNS - $100/year
Big Brother is free (assuming your time is free)
SBS has some MOM-like stuff included
Cacti, MRTG, many other possibilities.  OP manager (Granger is trying it out); WhatsUp, EventSentry (Willow)
JohnD:  Explanation of the Perimeter system
Some discussion of how do you monitor the monitoring system?