[ale] Bandwidth tracking

[griffisb at bellsouth.net]

> 
> From: "Nick Travis" <linuxnews at wormfishin.com>
> Date: 2003/09/02 Tue PM 01:35:53 EDT
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Bandwidth tracking
> 
> i'll be monitoring hosts on a IBM token ring switch...
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christopher Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Bandwidth tracking
> 
> 
> > > MRTG is a great product. I had a lot of fun installing it and playing
> with it.
> > > Just make sure that either all of your PCs have SNMP enabled, or that
> you are
> > > using an SNMP managed hub or switch. (I might want to install that one
> > > again!)
> >
> > If the switch is SNMP capable and will keep stats on a per mac address
> > basis.  Cisco has exactly what you need then.
> >

I guess we need to define what you are looking for, then. Maybe I read it wrong - but my best guess was that you have a Local Area Network with multiple hosts. You are looking for bandwidth utilization for each of the hosts physically located on your LAN. If that is true - the next step is to check your IBM Token Ring hub or switch. If it's a newer switch, it should support SNMP. Check the model number and do a quick search. If it's an ancient 8228 MAU, then you will not have SNMP support (well I don't think so - but they are OLD!!!).

If you are looking for bandwidth utilization for each of the hosts on your LAN, and you have SNMP on either the switch or the hosts - MRTG can do that for you. Once that is up and running, you can go for a pretty front-end (like routers.cgi, that is pretty user-friendly).


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