[108352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco interface - GB of transfer software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Sep 30 11:58:37 2008
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:58:27 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
In-Reply-To: <200809301545.m8UFjSdF013942@parsley.amaranth.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Daniel Senie wrote:
> MRTG provides graphs of usage, but I'm not aware of it providing a
> monthly total usage (or 95% or other) in report form (though would be
> happy to learn otherwise).
>
> Does ntop provide a way to generate a monthly report?
>
> I believe the others posting are interested in this from a billing
> perspective. I share their interest.
>
Cacti and MRTG both have support for rrdtool backends. How the rrd is processed
is up to you. A simple script to poll data and do some basic math and email the
results, or generate a graph. Cacti has several plugins for sending reports.
MRTG users tend to just script additionals. It's not as gui oriented as cacti, IMO.
Each has pros and cons. If you have a sound internal php/mysql setup, cacti is a
breeze and the plugin php scripts are cute for the non-techies.
-Jack
