Re: patrolling network thoughput

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 08:09:12AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> nd%syndicat.com@localhost (Niels Dettenbach) writes:
> 
> >just btw:
> >Afaik RRDTool is the "advanced" version of MRTG - Tobi Oetiker byself forke=
> >d=20
> >MRTG into RRDTool because of the limitations within MRTG (performance,=20
> >graphing options) and he recommends to use RRDTool "within" MRTG too.
> >http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-rrd.en.html
> 
> Neither RRD nor MRTG actually know anything about network throughput
> but only about data storage and graphing. They rely on helper
> scripts to provide the data. The mrtg package from pkgsrc includes
> such a script
> 
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/net/mrtg/files/netstat2mrtg
> 
> which just calls netstat and uptime and parses the output.

Just to add to the collection, I used to monitor a College's network
traffic using netramet (then a lex parser -> postgresql database)

Cheers,

Patrick