On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:07:44PM +0200, T. Xar wrote: > hi all, > > snmp gives me many information of my network
yes > mrtg reads the snmp and make log files which i have configured that mrtg > should do and generate the graphics for that. yes > rrdtools can do the same as mrtg, but it is more powerful, faster, make more > graphics and store it in a database and does not need mrtg yes > > > so my questions are: > is it possible to measure the total traffic with snmp which was gone through > the network ? yes > would some logs get lost if the system crash ? dunno > if it's not possible with snmp, could it a other tool like tcpdump ? ok with snmp, as well with netstat -k (on solaris), or ifconfig on linux, or cat /proc/dev/net on linux also .. Surely not tvpdump (too much resources used) > can rrdtool and mrtg evaluate other log, dump files then from snmp ? dunno > can rrdtool and/or mrtg generate statistics of the built traffic per hour, > day, week, month, year ? yes (both) > can i store the evaluation in a sql database ? nope or at least to generate the graphs with rrdtool, data needs to be in a rrd database also (flat file), but the sql database can be used to fill data into rrd (I think cacti is working this way, not sure though as I don't use cacti) Luc -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
