[mrtg] Re: monitoring traffic in & out of Linux box

[Marc Bilodeau]

Once you've installed SNMPD (like ucd-snmp), then you can configure it using
template fragments from http://www.somix.com/software/mrtg/ for linux boxes
(UCD-SNMP templates) or install Denika Performance Trender to help you
create the reports quickly and easily at
http://www.somix.com/software/downloads/available.html

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From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
Behalf Of Ragnar Kjørstad
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 11:44 AM
To: Leigh Orf
Cc: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: monitoring traffic in & out of Linux box



On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:12:43AM -0500, Leigh Orf wrote:
> I hope this isn't too much of a dumb question...
>
> MRTG seems to be used mostly to monitor traffic in & out of routers. I
> would like to monitor only traffic coming in and out of a particular
> computer which is running Linux. Is it as simple as getting snmpd
> running on the Linux machine? I tried this a while ago and couldn't get
> it to work. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks....

You need a running snmpd, yes, but there is also a different problem:
linux doesn't do network accounting on the number of bytes transfered,
only the number of packets. (at least it used to). You can do byte
accounting by using ipchains, but it's a little bit more work to setup.


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Ragnar Kjørstad

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