[25216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP bandwidth usage collector?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe McGuckin)
Sun Sep 26 03:40:29 1999
From: Joe McGuckin <joe@monk.via.net>
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:39:28 -0700 (PDT)
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We run a perl program that captures snmp output from our switches every
5mon and stores the samples into a mysql database.
gashalot@gashalot.com wrote:
>
> This might be a little off topic, but I run a fairly large network, and
> we sell dedicated servers to clients. All of the dedicated machines are
> connected to our network of Cisco 2924XL-M Catalyst switches. I would
> like to be able to collect bandwidth usage statistics for their ports
> that way I can easily bill them for overage, and I don't want to have to
> install anything on the machines themselves to remove the threat of
> tampering.
>
> Does anyone know of a package that does this? Or would it just be best
> to write some quick Perl hack to pull the bytecounter out of the Cisco's
> SNMP information?
>
> Thanks for any help anyone might be able to provide.
>
> --
> Robert Gash
> System Administrator, FastURL
> Personal Email: gashalot [at] gashalot [dot] com
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Joe McGuckin
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