I tried hunting this package down in the webgui this morning and I wasn't able to find it. I ended up going to shell and changing the environment variable 'PACKAGESITE' using the following command 'setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/`uname -m`/packages-8.1-release/Latest/. Once done, I was able to install iftop no problem. (Credit for the command goes to nooblet.org)
On to the Cacti comment; that's a really good idea Walter. Having a way to manage historical data would be great. I'm fairly new to the BSD world still, how difficult is it to piece together one of these solutions. I understand that the webgui helps quite a bit but initially I've heard monitoring solutions can be a bit of a nightmare to get working properly initially. Is this something that could or should be combined with a syslog type solution so that we're not only gathering network data but also logs/health from the routers themselves? Any tips here before I dive headlong into this? Thanks, James From: List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Mariotti Sent: April-07-14 1:04 PM To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: [pfSense] Network Traffic Monitoring w/o Webgui It's been a few years, but a simple windows version... http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/ From: List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walter Parker Sent: April-07-14 2:06 PM To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: [pfSense] Network Traffic Monitoring w/o Webgui Sorry, FOSS = Free/Open Source Software (what MRTG, Linux, FreeBSD, pfSense are, as different from what Microsoft or HP sell) Cacti is a web based system, from http://www.cacti.net/, that uses the technology that powers MRTG to build a nice web based system that monitors network equipment. Unlike MRTG, which has to be configured by hand, Cacti allows you to add hosts through the web interface (like how pfSense does all the pf stuff through the web rather than requiring you to edit config files). It is pretty simple to setup, assuming you have a FreeBSD or Linux systems and can install the package or port. I've used it on networks to monitor all of the traffic on the routers, on the servers and even on the switch ports (that requires a switch with SNMP counters, usually known as a "managed switch"). There are also commercial systems that do the same thing, but they quickly become expensive (1000's to 10,000's dollars) as the size of your network grows. Walter On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Brian Caouette <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What is Cacti? FOSS? On 4/7/2014 1:42 PM, Walter Parker wrote: I'd expect that you should be able to enable SNMP, set a non default password (please don't use public) and add a firewall rule to allow UDP on port 161 to/from your mrtg server. I'd recommend using Cacti as your mrtg server (if you want a FOSS solution). Walter On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Brian Caouette <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What about using mrtg to graph the various interfaces? Does PF support this? On 4/7/2014 12:54 PM, Jim Pingle wrote: On 4/7/2014 12:29 PM, James Caldwell wrote: Happy Monday list... Does anyone have a preferred way of monitoring over all traffic throughput for various interfaces via shell/putty instead of having to remain logged in to the webgui? I have several alix based appliances that have had their ISP connections upgraded and I am trying to remain outside the web interface as much as possible due to the load that it puts on the system. Any thoughts or experience is appreciated. The "iftop" package is great for this. Install it from the GUI and then from the shell run it like so: iftop -nNpPi vr0 (Serving suggestion, salt to taste) Jim _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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