Multicast Network Monitoring

[brandon.kim at brandontek.com (Brandon Kim)]

Interesting question, I'd like to know more about this myself. I'm so used to monitoring SNMP-based
devices, never really thought about multi-casts and being able to see the pattern/tree....




> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:59:13 -0400
> Subject: Multicast Network Monitoring
> From: rjsager at gmail.com
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> 
> Curious if anyone has any experience with tools specifically for monitoring
> multicast.  Finds where the trees are, paths they are on, tracks all
> senders/receivers per group, handles PIM-SM, RPs, MSDP, MDT Tunnels over
> MPLS VPN, etc.  Such as Cisco Multicast Manager, EMC Ionix Multicast
> Manager, CA Spectrum?  The good and the bad?  Worth the effort/investment?
> 
> Thanks