From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 22:20:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06831 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA06787 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA04988; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:23:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:23:27 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs To: Gary Schrock cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bandwidth monitoring? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970721234217.006ddab8@eyelab.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Gary Schrock wrote: > At 09:32 PM 7/21/97 -0600, you wrote: > >MRTG 2.4 is in the ports collection. > > I noticed that one, but from looking at it my initial impression is that it > can give me the bandwidth useage of a router, but only a router. The > machine I'm trying to get these numbers for isn't a router unfortunately. > Either that or maybe it'd be possible to set up snmp on the machine I want > to use mrtg on? > UCD-SNMP (also in the ports collection) can be used to set up SNMP on any *nix box. It is extensible to the point that I can litterally write a script to monitor just about anything I want and graph it via MRTG (or stuff it into nocol for threshold monitoring). -- John-David Childs (JC612) @denver.net/Internet-Coach System Administrator Enterprise Internet Solutions & Network Engineer 901 E 17th Ave, Denver 80218 I don't believe there really IS a GAS SHORTAGE.. I think it's all just a BIG HOAX on the part of the plastic sign salesmen -- to sell more numbers!!