Tag: event analysis

At NetCraftsmen, we get to do a lot of network assessments where we examine and evaluate a customer’s network, including the network management implementation. As a result of this work, [...]

The first component of a good network management system is an event handling system. A basic event handling system can be easily implemented with open source tools like Syslog Summary [...]

I’ve been doing some more reading about network event handling and found some interesting articles and a few facts that I’d like to share.  I have my own ideas about [...]

I just finished posting a neat syslog summary script that was passed to me by Phil Koontz.  He uses it every day to keep track of syslog events. The summary [...]

I’m continuing the list of NMS event handling requirements. Unstable interfaces In the last post, Syslog Summary Script. -Terry _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Re-posted with Permission  NetCraftsmen would like to acknowledge Infoblox for [...]

I’ve been examining the handling of event data and wanted to share what I see as common requirements.  For the next few posts, I’ll describe the requirements and why they [...]

Here is a list of the articles I posted in February to my blog at Netcordia: “Network Management Sucks!!!“ discusses why I think Jimmy Ray Purser, a blogger for Cisco [...]

I’m working on network management requirements for several customers and keep running into the same requirements.  One of the key requirements is that of event reporting.  Events typically take two [...]

We just announced the NetMRI Event Analysis system, which analyzes syslog and snmp trap events, and is pretty exciting (see Applied Infrastructure blog under

Netcordia announced (NetMRI. -Terry _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Re-posted with Permission  NetCraftsmen would like to acknowledge Infoblox for their permission to re-post this article which originally appeared in thehttp://www.infoblox.com/en/communities/blogs.html

We just announced an agreement with Splunk, incorporating their Splunk log file collection and analysis engine into NetMRI.