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From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
To: "Dave Wells" <wellsian@caffeine.com>
Cc: "Steve Hovey" <shovey@buffnet.net>,
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Subject: RE: How to monitor Interface load?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:22:26 -0600
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Yes, Im totally agree with you.

> 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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