[plug] Network Monitoring

[James Devenish]

In message <dmse32xdp.ln2 at shameless.plug.org.au>
on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:20:54PM +0800, Margo Adams wrote:
> Being still fairly new to linux, I have no idea but am assuming there 
> are network monitors available. I have Apache instyalled so something 
> that would record hits on my local server would be excellent.

If you ask for a "network monitor", I think most people would think of
something akin to `ntop`. Ntop records information about your network
environment and the "connections" that are made. It is not about
gathering Apache statistics, since Apache is an "application" that sits
on top of your network. However, if you do want graphical Apache stats,
there are many famous packages available. If you want to install them on
your Linux machine, you'd do best to search within your distribution's
package lists. But in general you can probably search somewhere like
http://www.freshmeat.net.