[10235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network IP analysis?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nicholas harteau)
Wed Jun 25 18:47:52 1997
To: peiffer@nts.umn.edu (Tim Peiffer)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:41:57 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bridge@unisource.ch, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199706251239.AA10016@unet.unet.umn.edu> from "Tim Peiffer" at Jun 25, 97 07:39:09 am
From: nicholas harteau <panic@voodoo.net>
Iain Lea's (author of tin?) router-stats package does just that, if i
remember. although it's output isn't half as pretty as mrtg's.
ftp://ftp.scn.de/pub/networking/router-stats/
>
> MRTG is a great graphing tool for small applications. Unfortunately
> the package does not scale very well for my purposes. The snmp polling
> and data storage in the logfiles are areas that I have problems with
> using MRTG. Are there any other viable alternatives to MRTG, or are
> there any existing mods to mrtg that graph right out of a file rather
> than polling for itself? I already have the data I need and would
> like to reuse it. If possible I would like to have a package that
> is separated into 3 sections. One section can be called upon to
> do polling or gathering data out of a repository. The second can
> be called upon to do statistics runs. The 3rd can be called to provide
> graphs on demand.
>
>
> Tim Peiffer peiffer@nts.umn.edu
> Networking and Telecommunications Services
> University of Minnesota +1 612 626 7884 desk
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>
> > MRTG is a great tool that we use a lot - especially good if you want to offer traffic monitoring to customers. MRTG can get the stats from the customers port and display that as a GIF on your web server, accessed using the customers ID and password. Stops> all those calls from customers asking if their access lines are overloaded...
>
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