[Klug-general] Re: [Gllug] Monitoring network usage

[Karl Lattimer]

I recommend the use of bmon for real time bandwidth monitoring and  
for long term statistics i recommend install and configure snmp  
(simple network monitoring protocol a complete oxymoron as its really  
complex but run snmpconf and its easy to work) and mrtg (multi router  
traffic grapher), i personally use this method and i always know how  
much i'm using.

with bmon you can monitor in the short term and its not likely that  
you'd want it to continue running (unless you put it on a tty in your  
inittab) mrtg is perfect for long term monitoring as it provides  
statistics over a day, week, month and year.

If you give me an ip address i would be happy to allow you access to  
my mrtg pages for you to look at.

Karl,

On 16 May 2005, at 19:22, Kevin Groves wrote:

> Sharon Kimble wrote:
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>> Anyway, to cut a long story short, if I was to reinstall ntop,  
>> does it do something to the iptables firewall which could block my  
>> internet access if/and when I reboot again please? Or was my sorry  
>> saga just a one-off blip?
>>
>>
>>
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> Not sure what happend there but I use it a lot although I've  
> noticed a memory leak after hours of use which requires a restart  
> of ntop. Never had what you saw. Very strange.
>
>
>> Sharon.
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