For Network Analyzer, you can use Elastiflow. It's pretty complete even though its development has stopped lately (we have recently deployed it in production for a customer). It is still just as good as it was a few years ago.
For Network Configuration Management, it really depends on the sets of features you're looking for. But, you can use the Ansible & Gitlab combo. We've written a full tutorial for it on our website: https://www.zen-networks.io/ne...
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Hi, in this case, Nagios Network Analyzer could be a good option, the big advantage is that is very easy to connect with Nagios XI and you can see information on networks and you can verify different information using SNMP on Nagios XI too, you can enjoy of all information in one place, other features are related with very behavior on a specific IP or port, this is normal in all solutions, I believe the disadvantage in this solution is that it is not open source (Nagios has Nagios Core, that is open source, is amazing but you need a little bit knowledge about Linux, nothing complex). I used other solutions in other labor life (lol) like cacti, but with this solution, you should in a short time need to use other solutions for servers and other solutions to log. I hope that my information can help you.
For Network Configuration Manager, have a look at Device Config functionality that is part of NetCrunch. it includes predefined profiles of over 180 network device types, plus an editor that helps you easily create new profile definition for any less popular device that you have in your network. More here: Monitoring of Device Configuration (adremsoft.com)
@Shibu Babuchandran yes Riverbed has several use cases, check Digital Experience Innovation & Acceleration | Riverbed also riverbed is one of the companies focused on networks and network deduction, I work with a lot of tools and have a long history, today you need a total solution for on-prem, hybrid, cloud, multicloud. I use Instana for obeservability, Turbonomic for cost savings and Riverbed with sevone for network and network cost deduction
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Hello,
For Network Analyzer, you can use Elastiflow. It's pretty complete even though its development has stopped lately (we have recently deployed it in production for a customer). It is still just as good as it was a few years ago.
For Network Configuration Management, it really depends on the sets of features you're looking for. But, you can use the Ansible & Gitlab combo. We've written a full tutorial for it on our website: https://www.zen-networks.io/ne...
Good luck!
@Shibu Babuchandran With pleasure. I hope it helped :)
For the network configuration manager, I would take a look at Auvik. It is free to try and easy to deploy.
They do a decent job of network traffic analyzing. If you want to look inside the traffic only there is Wireshark.
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Robert Vergeer
Hi, in this case, Nagios Network Analyzer could be a good option, the big advantage is that is very easy to connect with Nagios XI and you can see information on networks and you can verify different information using SNMP on Nagios XI too, you can enjoy of all information in one place, other features are related with very behavior on a specific IP or port, this is normal in all solutions, I believe the disadvantage in this solution is that it is not open source (Nagios has Nagios Core, that is open source, is amazing but you need a little bit knowledge about Linux, nothing complex). I used other solutions in other labor life (lol) like cacti, but with this solution, you should in a short time need to use other solutions for servers and other solutions to log. I hope that my information can help you.
For Network Configuration Manager, have a look at Device Config functionality that is part of NetCrunch. it includes predefined profiles of over 180 network device types, plus an editor that helps you easily create new profile definition for any less popular device that you have in your network.
More here: Monitoring of Device Configuration (adremsoft.com)
I recommend checking Riverbed, depending on what you need: SNMP, MIB, or Flow. They have many tools available but they are not open source.
@Shibu Babuchandran yes Riverbed has several use cases, check Digital Experience Innovation & Acceleration | Riverbed
also riverbed is one of the companies focused on networks and network deduction, I work with a lot of tools and have a long history, today you need a total solution for on-prem, hybrid, cloud, multicloud. I use Instana for obeservability, Turbonomic for cost savings and Riverbed with sevone for network and network cost deduction