Hi Ben, you can give a look to the online tutorial about interfacing Cacti and pmacct. It well-defines the monitoring of traffic per host with pmacct and Cacti on the same box. And it can easily be adapted in a distributed fashion. In the case you have missed it, it is available at the following URL:
http://www.ba.cnr.it/~paolo/pmacct/docs/cacti.html And I would be happy to know whether you see it limiting for your project. Perhaps, you can also give some more insights about your environment and what you are interested into; a few ideas: * How do you get traffic data from the underlying network ? libpcap, NetFlow or sFlow ? * What do you precisely mean by "port" ? Physical port, IP address, MAC address, etc. * What kind of informations do you actually need ? Total traffic (ie. incoming+ outcoming) per port, incoming/outcoming traffic per port, an outlook of relevant traffic flows produced by each port, etc. Cheers, Paolo
