[108355] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco interface - GB of transfer software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Braun, Mike)
Tue Sep 30 12:19:33 2008
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:18:38 -0700
In-Reply-To: <48E24CA3.8060500@brightok.net>
From: "Braun, Mike" <MBraun@firstam.com>
To: "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I have had good success with Netflow data to solve this, and if you
don't mind spending a little money, Scrutinizer is a good tool to use.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates@brightok.net]=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:58 AM
To: Daniel Senie
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cisco interface - GB of transfer software
Daniel Senie wrote:
> MRTG provides graphs of usage, but I'm not aware of it providing a=20
> monthly total usage (or 95% or other) in report form (though would be=20
> happy to learn otherwise).
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> Does ntop provide a way to generate a monthly report?
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> I believe the others posting are interested in this from a billing=20
> perspective. I share their interest.
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Cacti and MRTG both have support for rrdtool backends. How the rrd is
processed=20
is up to you. A simple script to poll data and do some basic math and
email the=20
results, or generate a graph. Cacti has several plugins for sending
reports.=20
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=20
breeze and the plugin php scripts are cute for the non-techies.
-Jack
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