Re: [tkined] Traffic flow MIB/app?

Neale Banks (neale@lowendale.com.au)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:37:04 +1100 (EST)

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Scott D. MacKay wrote:

> Hello,
> I was interested in monitoring traffic flow through a router or
> through a host (acts as a router). The two things I would like to do
> is:
>
> 1) Monitor the % used based on knowing how large the pipe is or find the
> MB/s
> 2) Identify source and destination of the traffic flows (kind of like a
> graphical snoop with flow rates).

Have a look at NeTraMet
<URL:http://www.auckland.ac.nz/net/Accounting/ntm.Release.note.html>

> I would prefer a MIB value or scotty-pluggabe app, but could do with a
> separate app also. I would be running this on a SPARC solaris machine.

I have no idea how well/easily NeTraMet could interwork with Scotty, but
it does have the advantage of being an SNMP app already (the "Manager" app
sets up then monitors the "meter" via SNMP).

HTH.
Neale.

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