SNMP is independent of ntop. The program snmpwalk can grab interface statictics from your interface and then you can generate the graphs/reports based on those statistics. This is done completely independent of ntop. If you check out those two URL's below, you can grab more information on both snmp and rrdtool. The way I do it is I have a perl script run every 5 minutes. In this script I run snmpwalk on the interface(s) and store all the output in a variable. I then break the variable apart into all the statistics I want and use 'rrdtool update <data>'. Then I generate nightly graphs by running the same perl script with different options. I also generate monthly graphs, etc. Depending on the type of information you are looking for about your network, this is a good way to go. It continues to work for me. -- Eric Lubow Guardian Digital Inc. http://www.guardiandigital.com/ On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, S. Khademi wrote: > Thanks advanced for your help, I have install rrdtool-devel-1.0 on my > machin, and I have installed ntop v.2.1.0. Now what I must do for keeping > datas and statistics of ntop on my machin.? > > > > > I would look into using rrdtool (Round Robin Database Tool). RRD combined > > with SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) can give you a solid > > accurate amount of information based on averages. You can get information > > per interface and generate statistics and graphs based on that > > information. > > > > More RRDTool information can be found here: > > > > http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ > > > > More information on SNMP: > > > > http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Hope this helps. If not, what type of information are you specifically > > looking for about your network? > > > > > For monitoring my network, I have installed ntop-2.1-1.i386.rpm on my > > > linux redhat7.3, and it works very good, but when my system restart all of dataase create again and old > > > datas and graphs delete from my system, for running ntop I use this > > > command: > > > > > > #ntop -u myaccount -i eth0 > > > > > > What I must do, for resolving this problem. Keeping these graphs and all > > > of datas are very importand for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
