Simple but Effective Packet Loss Monitor?
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If we are looking to get alerted as to packet loss on our LAN, is there a good way to do this? I know that something could be scripted up to handle it, but this seems like the kind of thing that has to exist out there. I'm not looking for a big package or anything, just something simple that can check a few addresses and shoot out an email or something if packet loss happens. It's on a LAN where really, no packets should be dropping. But if it could have a limit ability, like if it drops below 95% success over a one minute period that it alerts.
Anyone used anything like that or know what might be useful for that?
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I think most network monitoring tools would have this (? ) You could start with PRTG ..
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@Veet said in Simple but Effective Packet Loss Monitor?:
I think most network monitoring tools would have this (? ) You could start with PRTG ..
Anything that is free? PRTG is only free for very small networks. Not that free is a requirement, but a nice place to start.
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@StrongBad said in Simple but Effective Packet Loss Monitor?:
I'm not looking for a big package or anything, just something simple that can check a few addresses and shoot out an email or something if packet loss happens.
If your definition of few addresses is > 100, then : -
- Zabbix
- OpenNMS
- Zenoss
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Which one do you think would be the simplest, given that I really just need very basic monitoring?
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@StrongBad said in Simple but Effective Packet Loss Monitor?:
Which one do you think would be the simplest, given that I really just need very basic monitoring?
I'd say OpenNMS ... It has a GUI based installer for the Windows platform ..
You could also try
- PingPlotter
- Capsa Free (It's very easy to install)
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To install one of the larger monitoring packages just for some simple packet loss monitoring seems like overkill. Especially since its like 10 lines to script this.
https://bash.cyberciti.biz/monitoring/monitor-windows-linux-server-with-ping-script/
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@tiagom said in Simple but Effective Packet Loss Monitor?:
To install one of the larger monitoring packages just for some simple packet loss monitoring seems like overkill. Especially since its like 10 lines to script this.
https://bash.cyberciti.biz/monitoring/monitor-windows-linux-server-with-ping-script/
Everything is either a little more, or a little less, than I want. But this might suffice. Thanks.
