[ale] Bandwidth tracking

[Nick Travis]

it will be monitoring just about any operating system available all windows,
os/2, aix, linux, and several mainframes.

i'm looking into rtop, does anyone have any experience with it?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ale] Bandwidth tracking


> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:00:37PM -0400, griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
> >
> > 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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> what OS is on the clients.  He'll haev to install and snmp-agent for each
> individual PC on the LAN.  When someone walks in and ties on then they'll
> use band-width that is not accounted for.  IMHO I would use an
os-independent
> solution that sits outside the clients.   I'm not against MRTG I just
think
> it is only good for embedded devices like switches, routers, and hubs.
> For uncontrollable PCs the lan needs to be monitored.  Espectially if you
begin
> billing people ;)
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