[Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

[drew.vanzandt at gmail.com (Drew Van Zandt)]

Cacti, Nagios, and Intellipool are all solid for this.

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Drew Van Zandt
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>wrote:

> We've got some machine (or machines) sucking up a lot of bandwidth on our
> network.  I'm trying to pin down exactly what, but not having much luck so
> far.
>
> The network's got about a dozen machines, behind a firewall.  What I'd
> like to see is a high-level view of the whole network's bandwidth usage
> over the span of, say, 24 hours.  I.e., which machines are using the most
> bandwidth (i.e., in Gb), and connections to which external sites are
> causing most of the hogging.
>
> Clearly, micro-level tools like iftop aren't going to cut it here, as they
> only show me a) what's using bandwidth right now, and b) an individual
> machine basis.
>
> I tried running darkstat on each machine in the network, but it didn't
> really give me what I was looking for.  Again, the reporting was
> per-machine, and so didn't provide a comprehensive view.  (Among other
> problems.)
>
> Bandwidthd looks like it might have some promise, but would take some time
> to set up to give me a comprehensive view.  (I.e., configure a pgsql
> database.)
>
>
> Anyone have any particular recommendations for a situation like this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR
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