NetBeez Review
NetBeez presented at Network Field Day 9, where they showed us their solution for distributed network performance monitoring. They gave the delegates a NetBeez agent to take home and test. I’ve run it for the last two months, and I’ve been happy with how it has performed.
Physical Install
The unit was supplied with a US power plug. I was contemplating using an adapter, but I didn’t have any spare power points near where I wanted to install it. Hmmm. Then I realised that the power connection is just a USB port anyway. The Ethernet cable needed to go into my SRX-110, so I wonder if…
Yup! Powers from the USB port on the SRX. Perfect.
Monitoring Setup
The device powered on, and it soon showed up on the NetBeez web dashboard. This is where you can configure your agents, define what tests you want them to run, and see the results.
I added a few simple monitors:
- HTTP monitoring to this website
- HTTP monitoring to www.netopscommunity.net
- PING monitoring to www.netopscommunity.net
All very straightforward to add the monitors, and pick which agents to run them from. Running the same tests from multiple agents gives you a distributed status Continue reading