> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:01:15 -0700 > From: Michael Gale <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Performance MonitoringPerformance Monitoring > Organization: Bluesuperman.com > > Hello, > > Yesterday I was a reply on Performance Monitoring on the netfilter mail > list, it suggested the user use IPAC-NG. The admin then have to create a > chain for each IP they want to monitor. > > I did not think this is a good idea ... so for those of you who want to > do bandwidth monitoring I suggest you check out the following. Here is a > list of ones I have tried. > > ntop -- provides a web GUI for real time monitoring. Using it now on a > firewall box to monitoring traffic on each interface. unfortunatly it,s not stable.... > > Adv .. provides great states , very detailed > Dis .. seems to be some over header ... uses a DDR db :( > could you give us a link to them ?( Adv and Dis ) > You can use curl to pull the stats nightly and save them to a text file. > Then create a little PHP scritp to provide you with the numbers. Now you > will have stats for as long as you want. > > iptraf -- not bad ... detail is low. > > Adv ... NO over head and works great on a work station or 1 interface > machine. It takes a bit to setup because you have to create all the > filters your self. > > Dis ... out is simple ... a php script to produce a nice web GUI is > needed. > > Nagios -- http://www.nagios.org/ > Could be over kill depending on what you want ... this is more of a > network monitoring tool. Really not designed to be run with one machine > in mind. > > IPFM -- not bad .. very simple: > > example: > HOST IN OUT TOTAL > host1.domain.com 12345 6666684 6679029 > > MRTG for total traffic accounts only > > Bandwidthd -- not bad ... currently testing it. Seems to provide web png > files much like MRTG but does provide host info. I do not believe you > are able to save the data though :( > > > Michael.
