[plug] Traffic Monitoring

[Ben Jensz]

Yep, I use that too :)

But remember its not accurate, because the results are based on 5 minute
readings from MRTG.  You can't make MRTG run at shorter intervals (well not
unless you wanna start code hacking).


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Foster" <fostware at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [plug] Traffic Monitoring


> My personal opinion is ucd-snmp and MRTG (usual places already mentioned)
> coupled with Traffic.php (http://bjorn.swift.st/) which allows you to see
> the exact cumulative traffic for a specific period. It uses the MRTG logs
> directly, so you can sit it in the same web-viewable directory as your
> MRTG stats, and add the link to the header of the mrtg.conf, for easy
> accessibility. You can also add ethernet or whatever other traffic logs
> you use MRTG to keep track of.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig Foster
>
>
> EG:- results
> Total Traffic
>
> MODEM 01.10.2001 - 01.11.2001
> Bits In 33.2 Gbits
> Avg. Bits In 13.0 Kbits
>
> Bits Out 16.2 Gbits
> Avg. Bits Out 6.3 Kbits
>
> Bytes In 4.1 GBytes
> Bytes Out 2.0 GBytes
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Barbara [mailto:Andrew at mmtnetworks.com.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2001 9:39 AM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: [plug] Traffic Monitoring
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I need to monitor all traffic going through all of our
> > clients Linux gateways.  What's the best way to do this,
> > with minimal configuration?
> > I looked at MRTG but that has a lot of configuration, I
> > will use it if there is no others but I thought I would
> > just check first.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andrew Barbara,  MCP
> > MMT Networks Pty Ltd
> > http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au
> >
> >
> >
>