I almost forgot, this solution needs to be running on a linux box because lot of companies whom I'm dealing with, will absolutely refuse to punch holes to their firewalls to allow m$ box(s) sniffing/baselining their networks specially w/ the recent attacks which is obviously not the last. They simply want to minimize these types of attacks as much as possible.

That's all :)

regards, Virendra

-----Original Message----- From: Virendra Rode [mailto:vrode@socal.rr.com] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:19 PM To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Cc: vrode@socal.rr.com Subject: [OT]: Remote Network Monitoring Expertise

Hi there,

Just wondering if anyone on this forum could possibly point me to the right team who can provide reliable remote LAN/WAN/VOIP...etc monitoring services for company's critical intranet data (access, distribution, and core) in order to help them meet five nines (99.999) percent availability.

I'm currently looking for teams who can provide (1) bandwidth availability (2) measure availability and identify outages daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly (3) outage cause analysis report to prevent similar outages (4) alert notification via pager and email (5) capacity planning (6) periodically audit router and switch configuration for consistency along w/ tactical on-call 24x7x365 support coverage via the monitoring tool(s). These are some key points that I'm looking at a team to provide, although there's a list of high availability point I like to discuss about. I'm open for suggestions.

If you are interested in discussing this further please contact me (vrode@socal.rr.com) offline so that we can take this to the next level.

Thanks for your time.

regards, Virendra