How to use MRTG to monitor an application's bandwidth use?

[mshields at namemedia.com (Matt Shields)]

Ok, someone may need to correct me, but your Application and the Network
operate at different levels in the protocol stack.  So mrtg alone is
impossible.  When you poll your router it is only going to report what
data is passed alone its interfaces.  You could setup something like
NTOP to monitor your firewall for connections, then look at the
summarized traffic report and see what it says for the destination
everyone is connecting to.

Matthew Shields
Sr Systems Administrator
NameMedia, Inc.
(P) 781-839-2828
mshields at namemedia.com
http://www.namemedia.com
 

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From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf
Of John Abreau
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:39 PM
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Subject: How to use MRTG to monitor an application's bandwidth use?

I just set up MRTG for the first time, and I've got it querying my pix 
firewall for basic traffic monitoring.  My boss is looking for something
to monitor a specific application to measure its bandwidth use.

Specifically, we've got an application server in our Munich office,
running Windows 2003 Server, and the office staff here in the US is
being trained to use it with Citrix.

I'm not sure where to begin in order to monitor just the Citrix traffic.
Is there a way to pick out just this traffic and monitor it in MRTG?


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