if your network has a certain size and you do everything by SNMP, you need to be able to correlate the events to avoid alarm floods when one link goes down. We have used Openservice's Nervecenter with great success, coupled with NetCool from IBM. The pricing is steep, but the products are top-notch. In our configuration, we monitor about 8'000 network devices (Cisco, 3com, Bay, Nokia-IPSO, Consentry, etc) using 2 Nervecenter running on 2 Sun 480 boxes.
(I'm not affiliated with these companies or products)
Assuming OS=UNIX|Linux. The problem with raid is that it doesn't protect you against a "rm -rf". I would rather suggest to buy two disks, mount them as separate filesystems, and use a daily rsync to mirror content from disk 1 to disk 2. Avoid "--delete" and you're safe.
Of course, having the second disk on another PC is better, the best is having this 2nd PC in another location (eg against fire). But this is my running paranoia.
Side benefit : you avoid RAID cost and complexity (try booting from a soft-raid1 setup when disk 1 has gone south).
Hey US guys, want to her a good one ? In french, "god" is the shortened version of "godemichet", which translate to "dildo". Do you still want a dildo attached to the back of your company ?
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Try my recept, feedback welcome !
http://www.bueche.ch/wp/2008/05/05/fighting-backscatter-using-procmail/
if your network has a certain size and you do everything by SNMP, you need to be able to correlate the events to avoid alarm floods when one link goes down. We have used Openservice's Nervecenter with great success, coupled with NetCool from IBM. The pricing is steep, but the products are top-notch. In our configuration, we monitor about 8'000 network devices (Cisco, 3com, Bay, Nokia-IPSO, Consentry, etc) using 2 Nervecenter running on 2 Sun 480 boxes.
(I'm not affiliated with these companies or products)
Assuming OS=UNIX|Linux. The problem with raid is that it doesn't protect you against a "rm -rf". I would rather suggest to buy two disks, mount them as separate filesystems, and use a daily rsync to mirror content from disk 1 to disk 2. Avoid "--delete" and you're safe.
Of course, having the second disk on another PC is better, the best is having this 2nd PC in another location (eg against fire). But this is my running paranoia.
Side benefit : you avoid RAID cost and complexity (try booting from a soft-raid1 setup when disk 1 has gone south).
Chuck
Hey US guys, want to her a good one ? In french, "god" is the shortened version of "godemichet", which translate to "dildo". Do you still want a dildo attached to the back of your company ?