Bandwidth Watcher/Monitor Help/Info Needed

Bandwidth Watcher/Monitor Help/Info Needed

Post by sysad.. » Sun, 25 Apr 1999 04:00:00



I run a Redhat 5.2 server and have it co-located elsewhere. My
provider has now decided to get slick and bill for bandwidth usage.
However my web stat program and their usage stats don't agree. I was
told this by my provider

"We run a bay networks ethernet switch, which allows us to snmp poll
each 'ethernet port' every 5 minutes, and generate statistics for your
server. We monitor bandwith into, and out of, your server and tally it
up."

My question is how or where do I find a program, perferably RPM based,
to monitor  my bandwidth usage at my eithernet card.


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Bandwidth Watcher/Monitor Help/Info Needed

Post by Pekka Savo » Sun, 25 Apr 1999 04:00:00


Quote:>My question is how or where do I find a program, perferably RPM based,
>to monitor  my bandwidth usage at my eithernet card.

You can build the kernel with IP accounting enabled, and make your
ipfwadm or ipchains firewall log the packets and bytes.

The downside is that every time you reboot the counters are cleared.
So, you need to 'backup' them now and then.

Pekka Savola                    pekkas at netcore dot fi
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Bandwidth Watcher/Monitor Help/Info Needed

Post by Holger von Amel » Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:00:00


Why don't you just use CMU-SNMP too ?

Holger


> I run a Redhat 5.2 server and have it co-located elsewhere. My
> provider has now decided to get slick and bill for bandwidth usage.
> However my web stat program and their usage stats don't agree. I was
> told this by my provider

> "We run a bay networks ethernet switch, which allows us to snmp poll
> each 'ethernet port' every 5 minutes, and generate statistics for your
> server. We monitor bandwith into, and out of, your server and tally it
> up."

> My question is how or where do I find a program, perferably RPM based,
> to monitor  my bandwidth usage at my eithernet card.


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