what about load test tools?
On 8/3/05, Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu> wrote:
>
> I assume you do not have network admin support or you wouldn't be
> here. You really need to have your network admin on board with you,
> period. They have the snmp community stings and network element
> passwds. You will need them.
>
> You can look at your interfaces for free:
>
> $ netstat -i
> Kernel Interface table
> Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
> eth0 1500 0 2904082 0 0 0 824105 0 0 0 BMRU
> lo 16436 0 1194 0 0 0 1194 0 0 0
>
> but you need to locate where in the lan the bottleneck is. For that
> you can do similar commands along the way in network elements, for free,
> to find
> where the drops/errors are. Scripted snmp queries will catch problems
> faster then cli logins, however. I use scotty, a tcl extention to rip
> these adhoc jobs out. Perl/java have many similar freebees.
>
> For money, and at the enterprise level, there are tons of great tools. We
> are
> particually taken with SMARTS/InCharge: www.smarts.com<http://www.smarts.com>(emc bought them
> recently). The winning feature here it that it does root cause analysis of
> problems...very cool!
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:01:52AM -0400, Ron Rogers wrote:
> > List,
> > We experience network slow downs from time to time that have the
> database users complaining.
> > Our network is a NOVELL network connecting to a Linux server/ Oracle
> 10g.
> > What type of equipment/software do you use to help detect what might be
> causing the network slow down?
> > We have proven that it is network related because the non database users
> also complain at the same time.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ron
> >
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