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| Hi everyone - new to the forums.
Right now I am involved in a project using WhatsUP Gold to document what we are monitoring and to improve/add more monitoring.
I would like to know the best way to configure WhatsUP to monitor our remote sites that use site to site VPN.
Has anyone done this and if so what is the best way to go about monitoring/setting it up? I would like to set it up so we can see how much activity is going on at these remote sites, which times are the worst, maybe even get down to what software could be a bottleneck in their environment.
If anyone has any suggestions - let me know.
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Is there a way to do this in WhatsUP Gold? Our company is not looking to spend any more money and work with what we have?
In any case what would be the best way to do this in Gold, or a similar solution?
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| | That depends on your environment. Factors like how IP addresses are assigned to your devices at separate sites (duplicate IPs?), etc. Perhaps you should elaborate more about the environment you wish to monitor. |
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| AmbarK (11/7/2008)
That depends on your environment. Factors like how IP addresses are assigned to your devices at separate sites (duplicate IPs?), etc. Perhaps you should elaborate more aboutthe environment you wish to monitor.
Each sites scope and router has a .254 address and we assign the devices using DHCP. We do not use duplicate IP's for the devices at our sites.
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| | If you've got full routing then it shouldn't be a problem. We have several sites on the ends of VPNs that we monitor as if they were local. Even ones with overlapping IP spaces are monitored by having firewalls NAT the addresses between LANs. If you can ping it you can monitor it! The only problem you might have is if the VPNs don't stay up all the time, in which case you'd need the distributed edition, unless you can suffer gaps in your monitoring. |
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| neilb (11/7/2008)
If you've got full routing then it shouldn't be a problem. We have several sites on the ends of VPNs that we monitor as if they were local. Even ones with overlapping IP spaces are monitored by having firewalls NAT the addresses between LANs. If you can ping it you can monitor it! The only problem you might have is if the VPNs don't stay up all the time, in which case you'd need the distributed edition, unless you can suffer gaps in your monitoring.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah we are OK with the gaps in our monitoring, as you said the VPN's do go down at times, but when that happens we know and that will be OK.
What would be the best way to monitor them? The same as what we do internally? |
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| | If the devics are all on different IP addresses and you have the appropriate ports open in the firewall and appropriate routing then you should have no problem monitoring them the normal way. You might want to think about setting a dependency for all remote devices on their local router so when the VPN does drop you get just the one alert instead of many. |
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| neilb (11/10/2008)
If the devics are all on different IP addresses and you have the appropriate ports open in the firewall and appropriate routing then you should have no problem monitoring them the normal way. You might want to think about setting a dependency for all remote devices on their local router so when the VPN does drop you get just the one alert instead of many.
OK great - thanks |
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