[CentOS] Network bandwidth tools.

[Cameron Kerr]

It all depends on your requirements:

- what sort of questions would you like your solution to be able to answer? (can you give us  a few?)

- what monitoring infrastructure do you already have? (SNMP, for example, could be rather useful here)

- how much level of ad-hoc reporting do you require?

- you mentioned "incoming and outgoing network speeds", which doesn't necessarily refer to any web-specific analysis; is this what you meant?

Plenty of tools out there: ntop may be a good starting point.

	http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-ntop-on-rhel-centos-fedora-linux/

Netflow and SNMP would be my first points of call if I wanted something more.... infrastructural.

For ad-hoc use of TCP sessions, with a top-like experience, I would just break out tcptrack (there are RPMs available, but doesn't appear to be a Centos package)

On 16/01/2011, at 6:08 PM, Jason S-M wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am wondering what tools are available in CentOS 5.5 that would allow me to measure incoming and outgoing network speeds? My new website seems to be getting a lot more traffic that I had anticipated off the bat and I would like to measure resource usage to ensure it is keeping up.
> 
> I know that top only measures CPU
> 
> Best,
> -Jason
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