IPAUDIT is a great tool--especially for finding those bandwidth hogs. But I would run it on a separate box.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Todd MacDougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:25 AM > To: Brad Fritz > Cc: Mark Ivey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] bering: monitoring bandwidth? > > > Mark, > > I too have been looking at bandwidth monitoring with Bering. I have > used MRTG in the past and it gives nice graphical output of > usage but it > isn't really sufficient for any useful accounting purposes. For > example, if you're simply trying to find out who is hogging all the > bandwidth on any given day then MRTG may serve you well. However, if > you want to know a little more about what that user is doing then you > may have to look at another application such as IPAduit, IPTraf, > IPMeter, etc. Here is a link with decent list of monitoring apps: > http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/network-monitoring/ > 00-network-monitoring-README.txt > > Unfortunately I can't give any guidance on any of these products, > especially in conjunction with Bering. I am in the process of setting > up Bering on one machine to act as my router/firewall and another > light-wieght distro of linux (with IPAudit) on another box which will > port-mirror the Bering box. I want to keep any kind of monitoring app > off the Bering box for performance reasons. > > Cheers, > > Todd > > > Brad Fritz wrote: > > > > On 26 Aug 2002 22:32:04 MST Jack Coates wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 22:16, Mark Ivey wrote: > > > > What is the best way to monitor bandwidth usage with > Bering? Ideally, I > > > > would like to run something like MRTG on the Bering box > itself with graphs > > > > drawn in the weblet, but I realize MRTG requires perl. > How do other people > > > > monitoring their bandwidth? > > > > > > > > -Mark Ivey- > > > > > > > > > > Run MRTG on some other Unix box and just put net-snmp on > the LEAF box. > > > It's still a big whack of space, but better than Perl :-) > > > > If integrating the logs with weblet is important, you could always > > scp them at regular intervals from the MRTG (or rrdtool[1]) host > > to the Bering machine. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
