[Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

[Drew Van Zandt]

https://www.google.com/search?q=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counter&oq=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counter

I haven't used any of them in ages (I'm back to hardware design, thank
Science), but I had a plugin (or plugin + SNMP?) that monitored all the
interface stats back when.

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Drew Van Zandt
Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>wrote:

> ???  I use Nagios extensively on our system to monitor for uptime on
> machines/daemons, and alert us when something breaks.  But I'm not aware of
> it having the capability to show cumulative network usage, by remote host,
> across a span of time, for every machine on a network.  If it does, could
> you point me to which plugin one might use for that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR
>
>
> On 02/06/2013 12:21 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>
>> Cacti, Nagios, and Intellipool are all solid for this.
>>
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>> Drew Van Zandt
>> Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
>> Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
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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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