At 01:17 25.06.97 -0400, Martin J. Hannigan wrote:
I just recently snagged MRTG, a freeware SMNP package that will poll a router allowing snmp access. It seems like a simple traffic monitoring/averaging/history program that is too simple to use, but provides easy to understand information in a visual context. Cisco's are really easy to configure for snmp polling by MRTG.
I'm sorry I can't post the ftp sites. Can't think of them off the top of my head and too late to search. Apologies. Maybe someone else knows firsthand?
MRTG is a great tool that we use a lot - especially good if you want to offer traffic monitoring to customers. MRTG can get the stats from the customers port and display that as a GIF on your web server, accessed using the customers ID and password. Stops all those calls from customers asking if their access lines are overloaded... It is mostly used for traffic monitoring, but can work with any SNMP variable. In the latest release it can monitor/display round trip delays as well. The URL is http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html Netflow has also been mentioned on this thread. The drawback is that Netflow only works on cisco 72xx and 75xx platforms. Phil
MRTG is a great graphing tool for small applications. Unfortunately the package does not scale very well for my purposes. The snmp polling and data storage in the logfiles are areas that I have problems with using MRTG. Are there any other viable alternatives to MRTG, or are there any existing mods to mrtg that graph right out of a file rather than polling for itself? I already have the data I need and would like to reuse it. If possible I would like to have a package that is separated into 3 sections. One section can be called upon to do polling or gathering data out of a repository. The second can be called upon to do statistics runs. The 3rd can be called to provide graphs on demand. Tim Peiffer peiffer@nts.umn.edu Networking and Telecommunications Services University of Minnesota +1 612 626 7884 desk 2221 University Ave +1 612 625 0006 problems Suite 145 +1 612 626 1002 fax Minneapolis MN 55455, USA
MRTG is a great tool that we use a lot - especially good if you want to offer traffic monitoring to customers. MRTG can get the stats from the customers port and display that as a GIF on your web server, accessed using the customers ID and password. Stops> all those calls from customers asking if their access lines are overloaded...
Iain Lea's (author of tin?) router-stats package does just that, if i remember. although it's output isn't half as pretty as mrtg's. ftp://ftp.scn.de/pub/networking/router-stats/
MRTG is a great graphing tool for small applications. Unfortunately the package does not scale very well for my purposes. The snmp polling and data storage in the logfiles are areas that I have problems with using MRTG. Are there any other viable alternatives to MRTG, or are there any existing mods to mrtg that graph right out of a file rather than polling for itself? I already have the data I need and would like to reuse it. If possible I would like to have a package that is separated into 3 sections. One section can be called upon to do polling or gathering data out of a repository. The second can be called upon to do statistics runs. The 3rd can be called to provide graphs on demand.
Tim Peiffer peiffer@nts.umn.edu Networking and Telecommunications Services University of Minnesota +1 612 626 7884 desk 2221 University Ave +1 612 625 0006 problems Suite 145 +1 612 626 1002 fax Minneapolis MN 55455, USA
MRTG is a great tool that we use a lot - especially good if you want to offer traffic monitoring to customers. MRTG can get the stats from the customers port and display that as a GIF on your web server, accessed using the customers ID and password. Stops> all those calls from customers asking if their access lines are overloaded...
-- nicholas harteau the funny thing about regret is.. panic@construct.net it's better to regret something you have done... panic@retro.geeklab.com than something you haven't. -b.s.
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:23:47 +0100 philip bridge <bridge@unisource.ch> wrote:
Netflow has also been mentioned on this thread. The drawback is that Netflow only works on cisco 72xx and 75xx platforms.
The GRF has a new function in the latest software that lets you record the header of packets through interfaces, I've not used it, but at some point I will. Also the GRF has tcpdump on it... Neil -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. Domino: In the glow of the night. neil@DOMINO.ORG NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>
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