Israel Brewster wrote: > This isn't a nagios question so much as a general network diagnostic > question, but since nagios is all about network monitoring and > diagnostics, I figured it was likely someone here would know the > answer. I am looking for a tool for testing network speeds on our > "local" network, similar to internet speed sites. The difference being > that I need something I can install somewhere on our local network so > we can get site-to-site results between our main hub and our > outstations. The idea being to test the actual speed we are getting > over our private links. This wouldn't necessarily need to integrate > with Nagios however, as it would just be for periodic spot checks - > thus the OT label. Thanks.
Most routers have a way to check current throughput. I'd start there. If you're looking for single-connection throughput, the old download-a-file-and-see-how-long-it-takes method works pretty well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
