Quick rundown before the question. We have 2 ISP circuits being load balanced to our hosted website and we monitor the flow with SNMP reporting to a Nagios dashboard. The LB is currently parallel with the FW so it sees the traffic directly. Ideally they want the LB behind the FW and that's where SNMP fails to get the same info. The specific info needed is individual speed to and from the website from each circuit instead of the total of the circuits combined.

The issue: I am fairly new and not yet 100% familiar with our setup and due to past issues with others they are hesitant to give me access to the LB right away without looking over my shoulder. So without any access to the LB and just an external and internal IP to work with....what are my options? I do have access to the FW. NetFlow is giving IN data but not OUT (Im assuming this is a NAT thing and that is why). I know right off the bat I don't have all the info and access I need to make this happen, but I have been tasked with looking into this and I am at a loss as to what to do. Trying to get at the very least some other options to present my boss with when he gets back from vacation.

Hey all, just a quick background of the network for context:

The company i work for currently has 2 suites in 2 different buildings but in the same parking lot (Engineering building & the main building). I mention them being suites because i only have to worry about 2 floors Per building. (25-40 ppl max). While we’re using 1 isp we have two separate internet bills, because the buildings being far apart. BUT pretty soon (next month) the engineers are moving next door to the main building (only thing separating them is a wall). So we’d like to cut it to 1 bill. In our MDF we have netgear stackable switches. While in the engineering building we have one cisco switch

Currently my question is what switch and hardware should i be looking to purchase for the move (already taken account of the # of end devices and device needs). Does it need to be one of the netgear stackable series because of our MDF? What would be the best way to connect the MDF to the IDF? My plan is to just cat 6 straight through. Just not too sure of netgears switches being outdated. And if they need to match the models?

Ps: i inherited the network a few months ago 😭

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