[92296] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Bandwidth accounting recommendation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Epstein)
Wed Sep 13 15:08:38 2006
From: "Randy Epstein" <repstein@chello.at>
To: "'Drew Weaver'" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>,
"'nanog'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:07:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: <B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B1934C6A2@BIGLOG.thenap.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello,
> Hi, I have been scouring the net searching for a good bandwidth
>accounting solution that would be appropriate for a hosting
>provider/carrier. We are more interested in the total amount of
>bandwidth the user has utilized in a 7/30/90/365 (whatever) day period
>of time than a Mbps 'graph' which MRTG would give you. It would also be
>great if it could allow us to assign logins to our users so they can
>view their utilization.
If you have a budget put together for this type of application (you'll need
it!), Orion from Solarwinds (http://www.solarwinds.net) would suit your
needs. I have used Orion for over 2 years now and quite satisfied with its
features and performance.
> So far I've looked at MRTG, Cacti, and RTG. Cacti was pretty
>good execept it doesn't appear to notice changes in a switch, sometimes
>more than 30 ports on 5 different switches change a day and we'd like
>something that automatically starts/stops monitoring utilization when
>the port status changes. I havent found a Netflow tool yet that I really
>like.
I don't fully understand your requirements here, but maybe the folks at
Solarwinds can provide you with a solution here.
>Any suggestions?
>Thanks,
>Andrew
Regards,
Randy Epstein
Email: repstein(at)chello.at
