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

[Sharon Kimble]

On Monday 16 May 2005 22:34, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 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.
>
right, bmon installed and working, mrtg and net-snmp, net-snmp-perl and 
net-snmp-utils installed.

snmp configured using snmpconf as a daemon, but unable to run from service 
configuration gui as it says 'starting snmpd: /usr/sbin/snmpd: symbol lookup 
error: usr/sbin/snmpd: undefined symbol: lastAddrAge [FAILED]' . I reckon 
that I misconfigured it somewhere.

mrtg installed but when I run 'env 
LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /home/boztu/httpd/mrtg/mrtg.cfg' I don't get any 
feedback from it. I reckon that its not configured properly yet then. 

Help anyone please?

I'll try again tomorrow, but meanwhile I'll leave bmon going overnight to see 
whats happeming.

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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