Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:12:39 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Wells <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx> Cc: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>, rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How to monitor Interface load? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002290812030.54291-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <022501bf82cf$131a6000$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx>
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You missed my point. Not netstat instead of mrtg. Netstat instead of snmp. On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > 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
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