-|-----Original Message----- -|From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- -|bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts -|Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:11 AM -|To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list -|Subject: Re: Network monitoring tools -| -|On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:43:09AM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote: -|> Can anyone recommend a good, free network monitoring tool? -|> -|> I have a lab of about 20 Linux boxes connected to a switch. It seems -|> like every once in a while, the performance of all the machines drops -|> dramatically, and I believe its related to the network, as all the home -|> directories are NFS mounted, but not sure where. -|> -|> I'd like to get some sort of an idea of network usage and what is taking -|> up the bandwidth. -| -|It depends on the switch. If the switch is snmp-cabable, then install -|mrtg. You can then monitor the traffic on every switch port. Once -|you've got the port hammered down, use something like ethereal to figure -|out what the traffic is. -| -|-- -|Ed Wilts, RHCE -|Mounds View, MN, USA -|mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx -|Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program Ed, I just thought that I would let you know that in addition to good old mrtg, I've been playing with cacti lately (http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/) and I've been very impressed at the newbie-friendlyness and database backend capabilities of it. We've converted all our switch graphs over to it here, and now my boss doesn't have to ask me constantly what everything means -- with user level access we can just show her the graphs that she needs to see! Cheers, Toby -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
