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Re: Must have tools
Monitoring -- I can't say enough good things about Opsview. I was recently turned on to it by a forum member and it's worked out great for us (used nagios before). However, I don't use Mikrotik, so I'm not sure if The Dude has any special Mikrotik integration that would be superior to Opsview.
Graphing/Trending -- Opsview has graphing/trending but to make complex/customized stuff Cacti is great and really can't be beaten.
Netflow -- You can setup Mikrotik as a netflow probe, which allows you to use a netflow collector like Ntop to view all of your traffic graphically. If you need to do any sort of traffic accounting, netflow is also a great tool for this (although you may want to use a different collector than ntop)
I'm not too familiar with bulk updates of MT config's since I only used 1 to test it out, but you might want to see if there's any sort of bulk update tool (I'd imagine there is). We just installed a bulk config tool for another manufacturer's gear and it already saved us the time today that it took to install it. |
