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04-07-2009, 12:12 PM
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Monitoring the entire network
Hi all,
I have a Cisco Catalyst 4006 switch running the backbone of my network. I am looking for a way to plug into that switch and monitor all the traffic on it. I would also like to be able to see which segment traffic is moving on (we have six fiber segments coming into this switch) Just don't know where to start. I have a forward port set up on most of our other switches so I can monitor the segments individually, but I would like to have one device (hardware or software) that can look at the whole network. Any ideas? Thanks! |
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04-12-2009, 09:05 PM
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Re: Monitoring the entire network
Given the way a switch works i don't think that it is possible to just hook up to it and monitor everything. Now if it were a hub then it would be no problem because then you could use a program like wireshark to monitor traffic.
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04-13-2009, 01:31 PM
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Re: Monitoring the entire network
Actually, since this is a managed switch with bandwidtn management and the like, there should be the ability to configure a monitor port and individually monitor traffic on any of the links.
I don't know that you can monitor all the traffic, but I know some capability exists for monitoring in that switch.
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04-14-2009, 05:40 AM
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Re: Monitoring the entire network
^haha I thought the same thing. Johnwill, the problem I see is that there are fiber links on the switch. I don't believe there are any standard ethernet ports, but perhaps I could forward the traffic to a gig port on a nearby switch and monitor from that one. I will have to investigate the switch itself to see what connections I have available.
Thanks for the replies and others are still welcome and appreciated!! |
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04-14-2009, 07:52 AM
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Re: Monitoring the entire network
Truthfully, Cisco support would be the first place I'd check.
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