Conquering and UnderstandingYour Network

David Babbitt

• Setup• Backup and restore switch configs• Troubleshooting network congestion• Monitoring bandwidth usage• “Network Bandwidth Usage” report• “Switch capacity” custom report

Topics

1. SNMP commands– SNMP community,

or– SNMPv3 login,

passwd2. Inventory data

(SNMP)

3. ssh commands– ssh or telnet login– “enable” password

4. Switch/WAP config (TFTP)

Setup—Under the Hood

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DEMOSetup and Switch Config Backup

A Spiceworld Story

DEMONetwork Congestion

Network Congestion

2. Network Map

1. Timeline

3. Interfaces, Network Map, Current Bwdth

4. Timeline, Running Processes

Punishment?Mwah ha ha!

DEMOBandwidth Monitoring and Reporting

Custom Reports—DB Schema for Computers

idname…

iddevice_idif_indexspeedbps_inbps_out…

network_adapter_idbps_inbps_outupdated_on

device network_adapters

network_adapter_versions

Custom Reports—DB Schema for Switches

idname…

iddevice_idif_indexspeedbps_inbps_out…

interface_idbps_inbps_outupdated_on

device interfacesinterface_versions

• SQLite Manager for Firefoxhttp://code.google.com/p/sqlite-manager/

• SQLite Language http://www.sqlite.org/lang.html

• Spiceworks Community!

Custom Reports—Resources

DEMOCustom Reports

QUESTIONS?