Managed Service Provider using Vyatta (OpenVPN Client Specific Subnets) and PRTG to monitor Customers

Possibly my longest title ever?
As the intro says this is a bit of roleplay for us, we are setting up the lab as a Managed Service Provider (MSP) who wishes to have a way to tunnel in (or in this case have the client tunnel out) to HQ where we can monitor all the goodies that PRTG can monitor remotely.

Heres the diagram:


Intro Video and lab setup:

Managed Service Provider using Vyatta (OpenVPN) and PRTG to monitor Customers - Part 1 from Richard Vimeo on Vimeo.

Part 2
Setup of connectivity
Setup OpenVPN Server with client specific info
Setup OpenVPN Client
Using Easy-RSA to generate certificates and keys
Securing interfaces with Firewall
Securing vtun0 interface with firewall

Managed Service Provider using Vyatta (OpenVPN) and PRTG to monitor Customers - Part 2 from Richard Vimeo on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

Network Monitoring/Sniffing using vSphere and PRTG Redux

Hi,

As ever I try and bring you guys (and girls?) something a little different :)
After completing this video here and being in contact directly with PRTG it came to my attention that the version I was using "PRTG Traffic Grapher V6" was EOL and the new version "PRTG Network Monitor" is the successor.
Network Monitor does have alot of cool new features including an iPhone app (cant wait for a droid version) and the best bit...they were kind enough to provide me with a copy of PRTG Network Monitor V7 for this video.

Part1
A cool tour of some of the features of PRTG Network Monitor V7 and how we use our virtual machine to monitor our voice network

Network Monitoring/Sniffing using vSphere and PRTG Ver 2 - Part 1 from Richard Vimeo on Vimeo.

Part2
This video actually shows you how we set the whole thing up!

Network Monitoring/Sniffing using vSphere and PRTG Ver 2 - Part 2 from Richard Vimeo on Vimeo.

Network Monitoring/Sniffing using vSphere and PRTG

Hopefully this is an interesting video, as it combines using a vSphere infrastructure to get visibility of both your virtual and non-virtual networks.

Part 1
Quick tour of the Network Monitoring setup

Network Monitoring/Sniffing using vSphere and PRTG - Part 1 from Richard Vimeo on Vimeo.

Part 2
Setup VM
Setup Switch
Setup Vlan trunk (switch,port group,vSwitch)
Installing PRTG

Network Monitoring/Sniffing using vSphere and PRTG - Part 2 from Richard Vimeo on Vimeo.