It's a good tool when people pay attention to the alerts it generates. It does have auto agent registration which makes life easier. This is an amazing tool that requires a bit of setup to be useful. and I swear I found graphs at one point but I can't seem to find my way back. Zabbix does all the other stuff too, service monitoring and (I think) recovery, reporting/alerting, system inventory, etc. But it's a full time job to configure and learn how to use. Zabbix and the community site - Zabbix is another amazing tool. While looking at flows is great, I really want to see a higher level overview of transmission rates, e.g.: bytes, packets, etc. (also they don't support the 3.13 kernel so I had to run configure on a machine with an older kernel then actually build it on the new kernel.). I must not have it setup right, because it says it can store persistent data but I seem to only get 'instantaneous' or current data, there is information about how long flows have been open. Unfortunately the collector is opensource but requires a license after 24K flows or something (probably enough for the Lab). It's a lab so in an effort to keep costs low, I picked up a TP-Link TL-SG1024 layer 2 switch, so there's no way to just mirror the traffic (the link to the FAQ has literally one entry but that applies to the TL-1024D E.), also for now, I'd like to run any monitoring services in a VM (this may change later but VMs are just so easy to scale up).

The thing is, the physical machines have bonded interfaces and I would like to be able to monitor individual ports as well as the aggregate bonded interface. I have hypervisors, storage nodes, and vms that I would like to monitor network traffic on. I'm trying to monitor my 'lab' (that will hopefully one day become 'production' one day).

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