[NTLUG:Discuss] bandwidth metering and snmp

[jeremyb@univista.com]

 I  know MRTG is cool and all that, but I haven't found out if it can
actually
use snmp to give the bandwidth usage granularity I need.  I'm  reading the
snmp docs, rfc's
,etc. starting today.
 I must be able to gather remote host name and host bandwidth usage aswell.

btw, I think the monitoring of non-snmp stuff is pretty cool!

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Moncello
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Sent: 7/2/02 3:06 AM
Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] bandwidth metering and snmp

I second that.  MRTG installs with Redhat 7.2+ (maybe earlier, but
that's
when I discovered it).  Email me directly for a link to see what I've
done
with it.  It monitors network traffic on each card in my linux firewall,
the
card in the win2k adv server, the system load on the linux firewall, and
the
temperatures at DFW airport and McKinney, TX. :)

Rick.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Jay Urish
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 22:17 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] bandwidth metering and snmp


Try out MRTG..
Do a search for it on freshmeat.



At 10:11 PM 7/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>hi y'all,
>   I've got a client in need of a bandwidth monitoring and alert
tool....
>they're running an IIS server unfortunately and they fear change.
>I tolf them I could plop a Linux machine infront of the IIS server
>to monitor client bandwidth usage and I could whip up a script in perl
to
>watch for arbitrary threasholds and notify them via email/pager
whenever
>those threasholds are met... cake.  They want to identify heavy uage
domains
>and
>clients.  I can write the script and set the box up but there's just
one
>problem....
>I've never used snmp or any other bandwidth meter-capable solution for
that
>matter!
>  Infact I'm not sure if snmp can do what I want.
>
>So to follow up, I've been looking around for Linux oriented snmp
>documentation.
>I haven't found much yet other then cpan.org module docs which will
come in
>handy if, indeed,  snmp is the solution.  Have any of you taken on and
>completed a task like this
>using snmp or some other solution?  I could probably figure this one
out on
>my own but it never hurts to get input from others.
>
>furthermore,  the metering and scripting/monitoring will be done on the
same
>box.
>
>thanks,
>    Jeremy
>
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