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From: Dave Wells <wellsian@caffeine.com>
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To: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx>
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	John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>, rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us,
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Subject: RE: How to monitor Interface load?
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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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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