actual network monitoring

[jeremy.garman]

While I use Nagios for system monitoring (ie. status and health of enterprise devices and processes), I was wondering if Nagios had the ability to be used as a bonafide network monitor?
ie. I'd like to be able to monitor the health of WAN links and internal VLANs, network traffic utilization (for proactively predicting increased Internet or WAN link bandwidth requirements), triangulate latency issues or excessively broadcasting nodes etc. I realize that SNMP provides MIB and trap data about the status and health of individual network nodes and devices (and even their respective network port and/or interfaces), but I'm thinking along the lines of those xxxxmonitoringsolutionxxxx or xxxxmonitoringsolutionxxxx type of dashboards that you see used in large-scale corporate NOC's and the like.
Does anyone know if this is possible, and if any additional modules are required to have this functionality?

Thanks in advance!!

[slansing]

Not quite sure what you mean by this, dashboards are simply a way of viewing what you are monitoring, not actually monitoring items. If you are interested in seeing Dashboards / Views that are able to be full screened with live updates for a NOC center take a look at Nagios XI as it already houses these features.

http://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxi

[IvanAK]

Hi garman,

I think you can find some useful plugins at http://exchange.nagios.org/ about that stuff. Also there is a plugins like bandwidth monitoring and nagiosgraph plugin that can draw graph about the status you are monitoring. There is a lot of plugins and in the end you can make some on your own for your purpose. There is a lot of plugins ... try it out ..

[sreinhardt]

Thanks Ivan, we will see if jeremy responds with some more info as slansing requested. I would expect you are correct, exchange may have some things and if not they certainly could be created.