Jake wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:08 AM, sadas sadas <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> What is the best way to monitor the total incoming / outcoming
> network traffic of CentOS server. I think that the solution is to
> monitor the network interfaces and to send SNMP packets to remote
> server. But is it possible?
>
>
> Absolutely. Check out Cacti http://cacti.net/
>
> There are lots of alternatives to Cacti too (MRTG, even doing graphing
> in your system monitoring tool like Nagios.) You might also find it
> easier to monitor the switch instead of the servers if that's possible
> with your gear. This way, you configure the switch once and can monitor
> all the servers on it instead of having to configure each server
> individually to allow snmp access.
OpenNMS is good too, if you have enough devices to be worth the extra
complexity. Http://www.opennms.org.
--
Les Mikesell
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