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Hello

I'm interested in software used for monitoring network hosts.
Knowledge of system status, things like uptime, hard disk usage,
mem/swap usage, network connectivity are of the upmost importance to
us. It would be great to be able to Administrate a wide range of
servers from a central interface.

We currently use MRTG and some other statistics tools - but they are
prooving to be not comprehensive enough.

I have read about Nagios (www.nagios.org), but it seems to be designed
for a LAN environment - the programs it runs are constantly sending
information to the server. I would prefer something that uses minimal
bandwidth and is designed for testing remote and/or lan hosts, I dont
want to burn bandwidth. Nagios would be perfect otherwise, I realise
there is a parameter which can be set which enforces Nagios to update
less regularly - but due to the fact that it is designed for a LAN
environment, we will never use it.

Thanks in advance for any other suggestions or ideas.

May be OpenNMS?  
http://www.sortova.com/tools/opennms/features/
I think it is as comprehensive as you can get.

It is free as in beer and speech btw.

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Hi,

whats the best way to count traffic on specific network adapters (without my
lan...).
i have to watch my download/upload limit, otherwise i have to change my
provider:)

i'm using suse 8.1 and i'm not an expert..

thanks for every advice!
andreas

Hi,

whats the best way to count traffic on specific network adapters (without my
lan...).
i have to watch my download/upload limit, otherwise i have to change my
provider:)

i'm using suse 8.1 and i'm not an expert..

thanks for every advice!
andreas

For some nice statistics you could use `iptraf', which is pretty neat
(it monitors traffic on all your interfaces, has various log and monitor
options). Or something like `mtrg`, to make graphs?

Use the force, Google around.

Regards, Jan

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