[mrtg] Re: Monitoring IP Traffic Per Server/Address

[Dannie M. Stanley]

Daniel:

Thank you, I really apprecite your effort to advise me on this issue. 
We are not tied to any specific brands, though 'no one ever got fired 
for buying Cisco' ;-)

If you feel so inclined feel free to cheer about the HP line.  I really 
know next to nothing about network hardware.  I just know what the 
marketing folks have been shoving down my subconscious.

I am primarily interested in the reporting and configuration methods for 
each device beyond SNMP.  We run almost solely Linux and OpenSource 
software.  We have 1 Windows box in our entire organization for testing, 
so I would rather stay away from routers/switched managed by an .exe

As an aside are there any switches that allow you to restrict throughput?


Thanks,
Dannie

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Dannie M Stanley
SpinWeb Net Designs, Inc.
http://www.spinweb.net


Daniel J McDonald wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 11:30, Dannie M. Stanley wrote:
> 
>>Hi All:
>>
>>I am new to the list.  And new to MRTG.  I know enough about it though 
>>to know that it is easy to setup (initially) and it makes pretty graphs.
>>
>>I have successfully setup MRTG to monitor traffic for a Cisco router:
>>
>>    IOS (tm) C2600 Software (C2600-I-M), Version 12.2(5a)
>>
>>We would like to also use MRTG to monitor traffic usage on a per server 
>>basis.  We would be happy to do it per IP address or per switch port.
> 
> 
> per switch port is much easier to accomplish using mrtg.  Most any
> managed switch will work fine.  You might want to toss the HP switches
> into the mix for switches to compare.
> 
> To do per IP monitoring, or per tcp port monitoring, the best way to go
> about it is to run netflow on the router and dump it all to flow-tools. 
> That's a much more involved process than setting up mrtg. 
> 

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