Jaredk's questions

I currently waste a lot of time making dns changes for my organization. DDNS of course helps for workstations, but we still have a few thousand unique servers with still more applications needing cname records that DHCP/DDNS alone will not support, so someone needs to make updates, but I'd like to see sysadmins make their own dns updates for their machines.

I'm currently working on extending our asset database to support this functionality, but I hold out hope that there are COTS solutions available.

Putting together a simple MRTG-like setup to monitor the load on our network switches. I've been told that Cisco switches are set up to be polled every five minutes, but we would like to get more precise readings, maybe once per minute.

Is this something that can be done? Or would we just be storing duplicate data because Cisco only updates it's traffic numbers every five minutes, or because they use a five minute rolling average for their readings?