bandwidth usage monitoring tools

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:35:38AM -0400, Chris Black wrote:
> I am looking for tools that will allow me to monitor the amount of 
> bandwidth used on different links in our cluster. I am already using 
> NetPIPE to measure available bandwidth, but now I want to measure 
> bandwidth usage during different jobs and conditions. I was thinking 
> about using MTRG, but this seems like it might be overkill with all 
> the SNMP, graphing, etc. Are there any other bandwidth usage monitors 
> that anyone could suggest?

Please forgive me for this blatant plug   :)

http://sysorb.com  will cover this.

It will monitor ethernet interface throughput on Linux. Stats are stored in a
database and you can access the plots via. web interface.

It's a monitoring system that was built to alert administrators of system
problems - but it can be used as a utilization monitor just as well (just don't
configure the alerts).  (It will monitor memory usage, load, etc. etc. too)

It's a commercial system, but it comes with a free (as in free beer) license
that allows you to use it on five systems, no strings attached.

And yes, I am affiliated with the company providing this product.

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