From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 8: 7:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FF037BB8C for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.241]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA05411; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:08:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <022501bf82cf$131a6000$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "wellsian" Cc: "Steve Hovey" , "John Lengeling" , , References: Subject: RE: How to monitor Interface load? Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:07:27 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, but netstat doesnt have neither a web interface, neither daily, weekly, monthly & yearly stats, neither graphic statistics, and also consulting your server trough snmp each five minutes, wont use more than 1% of the procesor in less than a half of second, so your system aint going to loose any performance at all, and also you can monitor all your system like CPU usage, Memory Usage, Swap Usage, etc, etc, etc. And you can notice when you have bottlenecks, and at what time, because you aint going to be monitoring your system all the time, all the day with netstat. P.S. Its very usefull once you learn how to use it. Have Fun... Ales > I've seen snmp additions used for this a number of times, but for pure > counts, won't netstat do the trick? The data appears valid for individual > interfaces and addresses, and without adding an snmp layer. > > Dave > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Try mrtg, its in the ports collection, you will have to install an snmp > > package too, try ucd-snmp that its also in the ports collection, after that > > just run "cfgmaker public@a.b.c.d" to create an mrtg.cfg file that will > > allow you to monitor that interface traffic, where "a.b.c.d" its the ip > > address to monitor trough snmp. > > > > Follow this link for more information & samples: > > > > http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message