David Davis has worked in the IT industry for 12 years and holds several certifications, including CCIE, MCSE+I, CISSP, CCNA, CCDA, and CCNP.
He currently manages a group of systems/network administrators for a privately owned retail company and performs networking/systems consulting on a part-time basis.
David Davis is on a mission to compile the ultimate list of Cisco administration tools.
Here is what we have so far:
Arpwatch-ng
Big Brother
Cacti
Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM)
Cisco-centric Open Source Community (COSI).
Cisco Monitor Director
Cisco Monitor Manager
Cisco Network Assistant
Cisco's Security Device Manager (SDM)
CiscoWorks
HP OpenView
Hyperterminal
Kiwi CatTools
Kiwi Syslog Daemon
MRTG
Nagios
Nessus
Netdisco
NetMRI
Paessler Router Traffic Grapher (PRTG)
Putty
RANCID with CVSweb
SecureCRT
SNMP
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolkits
ssh client eg TeraTerm
Syslog-ng with phpsyslog-ng
tftpd32
tftp server eg Solarwinds
TraffStats
WhatsUp
WinAgents IOS Config Editor
Wireshark/Ethereal
Useful links: Cisco Tools
What should we add to the list?
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New Cisco Managment Tools
Hi David:
You may want to add newly announced:
Cisco Monitor Manager & Cisco Monitor Director
to your list!
These applications target the SMB space and partners who would want to manage Cisco devices in that space and become join the rank of MSPs.
Thanks
-Mike
New Cisco Managment Tools
MRTG is also a great application for bandwidth monitoring. Like Cacti its also possible to report on VLANs.
Thanks!
Dave Thonet
http://www.e-grafix.com
Thank You Dave
Thank you Dave.
MRTG has been added to the list.
Sincerely and gratefully yours,
Brad Reese
http://www.BradReese.Com
Thank You Mike
Thank you Mike.
Cisco Monitor Manager & Cisco Monitor Director have been added to the list.
Sincerely and gratefully yours,
Brad Reese
http://www.BradReese.Com
NetMRI
We've been getting a lot of value out of a product called NetMRI. In addition to pulling SNMP counters and configs off of network devices, it looks for common configuration errors or "not-so-great" practices and flags them. For example, port duplex mismatches, misconfigured HSRP, EtherChannels that aren't spread across different blades, VLANs with no root bridge set, etc. It also has a module to check configurations for compliance with internal standards, and even includes a scripting language for pushing out changes to large numbers of devices at once. Anyhow, check it out: http://www.netcordia.com
Thank You Jason
Thank you Jason.
NetMRI has been added to the list.
Sincerely and gratefully yours,
Brad Reese
http://www.BradReese.Com