I've done casual research into the subject and am truly dismayed at the lack of compatible tools for such a simple task. Maybe someone can provide assistance.
We have a NetScreen NS-5GT in the office. I need to be able to get a glance of current traffic per endpoint -- I think the equivalent of 'get sessions' with byte counts/rates. I don't care about bars, graphs, and reports. Something as simple as a classic software firewall display would be perfect.
I can't shell out money on something real like SolarWinds products, so a free solution is essential. I'm willing to do a little work but refuse to program something from scratch. It's not prudent right now for me to install a hub or otherwise mess around physically. There must be something out there I can use, maybe in combination. I don't believe I'm asking too much.
Specific answers only please, e.g. monitoring software you know will actually work with this antiquated device. I've read about general approaches to the broader problem dozens of times already.
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Have you tried using a SNMP-based solution? I have a few clients that still use that firewall and have used Paessler's PRTG Network Monitor software (limited free version) without problems. PRTG software does show a lot of graphs but can show "Live Data" including each interface but I'm not sure how real-time you need. It also seems to be designed to be installed on a computer and left on for monitoring, the interface is web based.
From catfish -
I agree, use an SNMP based solution.
If you're wanting to be really selective. I'd just setup a script to do SNMP gets for the OID's you care about and turn them into useful output.
Otherwise, I'd install Zenoss.
Are you by chance using Mac OSX? There is a good SNMP based interface monitoring dashboard widget.
From Tom
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