Suggestions for bandwidth measurement software?

[Jen]

This is slightly off-topic ...

Does anyone have suggestions on good software to measure bandwidth usage?
I'm trying to ascertain usage on our T-1 line. Something that could graph
the usage at 5 minute intervals would be ideal.

Checkpoint makes FloodGate-1, but not all traffic flows through the
firewall, and it's designed to measure incoming and outgoing traffic. I'm
looking for something that measures all traffic on a segment (all traffic in
the DMZ is either outgoing or incoming; not much communication going on
between devices).

Thanks!

Jen

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[Derek Vadala]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jen wrote:

> This is slightly off-topic ...
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on good software to measure bandwidth usage?
> I'm trying to ascertain usage on our T-1 line. Something that could graph
> the usage at 5 minute intervals would be ideal.
>
> Checkpoint makes FloodGate-1, but not all traffic flows through the
> firewall, and it's designed to measure incoming and outgoing traffic. I'm
> looking for something that measures all traffic on a segment (all traffic in
> the DMZ is either outgoing or incoming; not much communication going on
> between devices).
>

Ummm... how bout MRTG?

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Derek Vadala, de...@usfca.edu, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek

[mark]

mrtg is good -

http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

makes nice pretty graphs. fun for the whole family.

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 07:56:15PM -0700, Jen wrote:
> This is slightly off-topic ...
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on good software to measure bandwidth usage?
> I'm trying to ascertain usage on our T-1 line. Something that could graph
> the usage at 5 minute intervals would be ideal.
>
> Checkpoint makes FloodGate-1, but not all traffic flows through the
> firewall, and it's designed to measure incoming and outgoing traffic. I'm
> looking for something that measures all traffic on a segment (all traffic in
> the DMZ is either outgoing or incoming; not much communication going on
> between devices).
>

> Thanks!
>
> Jen

>
>
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[Peter]

Jen

MTRG is a good tool for this event. You can get some information at
following URL
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

Peter

[Ramesh S]

You can use MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) to measure bandwidth
utilization at 5 min intervals. MRTG used PERL Scripts to check the traffic
utilization and graph it.
Check the site http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

Regards,
Ramesh.

[Houser David DW]

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> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:56:15 -0700
> From: "Jen" <jen...@griffon.personic.com>

> Subject: Suggestions for bandwidth measurement software?
>
> This is slightly off-topic ...
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on good software to measure bandwidth usage?
> I'm trying to ascertain usage on our T-1 line. Something that could graph
> the usage at 5 minute intervals would be ideal.
>
> Checkpoint makes FloodGate-1, but not all traffic flows through the
> firewall, and it's designed to measure incoming and outgoing traffic. I'm
> looking for something that measures all traffic on a segment (all traffic
> in
> the DMZ is either outgoing or incoming; not much communication going on
> between devices).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen
>
>

Suggest you take a look at MRTG -
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

DWH

[Patrick Prue]

MRTG does a wonderful job using SNMP information from the Router.. All
traffic is picked up..
And even better its Free

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Vadala [mailto:de...@usfca.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:06 AM
To: Jen
Cc: fire...@Lists.GNAC.NET
Subject: Re: Suggestions for bandwidth measurement software?

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jen wrote:

> This is slightly off-topic ...
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on good software to measure bandwidth usage?
> I'm trying to ascertain usage on our T-1 line. Something that could graph
> the usage at 5 minute intervals would be ideal.
>
> Checkpoint makes FloodGate-1, but not all traffic flows through the
> firewall, and it's designed to measure incoming and outgoing traffic. I'm
> looking for something that measures all traffic on a segment (all traffic
in
> the DMZ is either outgoing or incoming; not much communication going on
> between devices).
>

Ummm... how bout MRTG?

+++ath
Derek Vadala, de...@usfca.edu, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek

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[Arian Eigen Heald]

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>This is slightly off-topic ...
>
>Does anyone have suggestions on good software to measure bandwidth
usage?
>I'm trying to ascertain usage on our T-1 line. Something that could
graph
>the usage at 5 minute intervals would be ideal.
>
>Checkpoint makes FloodGate-1, but not all traffic flows through the
>firewall, and it's designed to measure incoming and outgoing traffic.
I'm
>looking for something that measures all traffic on a segment (all
traffic in
>the DMZ is either outgoing or incoming; not much communication going
on
>between devices).
>

>Thanks!
>
>Jen

>
>
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[Jen]

Thanks to all for the suggestions ...

I'll look at both MRTG and the Elron product. Elron's quicker to install, so
I'll start with that. It looks like MRTG might be more flexible, though,
since it can check up on many different routers, while Elron is only going
to measure traffic on one segment ... I guess different tools for different
jobs. We'll see how they work ...

Thanks again!

[mark]

ok, I think we're all in agreement - MRTG is a fine after-dinner drink, and is a generally environmentally safe product. It can be a pain in the ass to install and maintain, but thats yet another off-topic discussion, most likely there is another mailing list for MRTG...

but those graphs sure are pretty!

(sorry about the noise. this is a comment about the noise. becoming noise. terrible.)

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 05:08:23PM +0530, Ramesh S wrote:
> You can use MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) to measure bandwidth
> utilization at 5 min intervals. MRTG used PERL Scripts to check the traffic
> utilization and graph it.
> Check the site http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html
>
> Regards,
> Ramesh.

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[Magowan, Richard M. (ITS)]

Will it work with Frame Relay PVCs ???

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Prue [SMTP:Patr...@fantom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 9:39 AM
To: fire...@lists.gnac.net
Subject: RE: Suggestions for bandwidth measurement software?

MRTG does a wonderful job using SNMP information from the Router..
All
traffic is picked up..
And even better its Free

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Vadala [mailto:de...@usfca.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:06 AM
To: Jen
Cc: fire...@Lists.GNAC.NET
Subject: Re: Suggestions for bandwidth measurement software?

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jen wrote:

> This is slightly off-topic ...
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on good software to measure bandwidth
usage?
> I'm trying to ascertain usage on our T-1 line. Something that
could graph
> the usage at 5 minute intervals would be ideal.
>
> Checkpoint makes FloodGate-1, but not all traffic flows through
the
> firewall, and it's designed to measure incoming and outgoing
traffic. I'm
> looking for something that measures all traffic on a segment (all
traffic
in
> the DMZ is either outgoing or incoming; not much communication
going on
> between devices).
>

Ummm... how bout MRTG?

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Derek Vadala, de...@usfca.edu, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek

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