Re: NIC traffic monitoring, recording and reporting software?

[Noob Centos Admin <centos.admin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM, James B. Byrne<byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have snmpd and mrtg running and reporting against my Cisco router.
>  What I want to do is to configure snmp so that I can monitor
> network traffic across the host's own eth0 NIC.  Is this even
> possible for a generic NIC running on a x86_64 or i686 host?

Shouldn't be a problem since I was monitoring my server's own NIC
traffic and load with MRTG before it stopped working. If I'm not
mistaken, it's a matter of configuring snmp to check localhost in
addition to your router's IP.
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