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

[Sharon Kimble]

On Monday 16 May 2005 22:17, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks for this Karl, I'll try your method, and see what happens. ntop looks 
good but I'm wary of loss of internet access now.

Sharon.

> 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:
> >> 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?
> >
> > 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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