hey friends,
I am looking for a free Lan Monitoring Software/tool on Centos. My Network is hetrogenous consisting of Windows XP/2000/2003/98, Pix Firewall, APC UPS, Printers , Laptops.
I want to monitor Desktops & Laptops and want a daily, weekly,monthly reports for each and every client with the details like Bandwidth spend on www, mail, chatting. Company wants to track how much bandwidth each client is consuming and on what.
Is there any such tool available? I am using Centos 4.0
Thanks & Regards
Ankush Grover
I want to monitor Desktops & Laptops and want a daily, weekly,monthly reports for each and every client with the details like Bandwidth spend on www, mail, chatting. Company wants to track how much bandwidth each client is consuming and on what.
Is there any such tool available? I am using Centos 4.0
There are several tools you can use to monitor bandwidth usage, and display them as a graph with rrdtool or mrtg. The issue is breaking it down by application. The easiest way to do that would be at the switch level via a managed switch. Even then, you'd only be able to manage port usage, and not necessarily application usage.
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 07:28, ankush grover wrote:
hey friends,
I am looking for a free Lan Monitoring Software/tool on Centos. My Network is hetrogenous consisting of Windows XP/2000/2003/98, Pix Firewall, APC UPS, Printers , Laptops.
I want to monitor Desktops & Laptops and want a daily, weekly,monthly reports for each and every client with the details like Bandwidth spend on www, mail, chatting. Company wants to track how much bandwidth each client is consuming and on what.
Is there any such tool available? I am using Centos 4.0
Cacti: http://www.cacti.net will do total bandwidth charts with snmp. You can watch the switch ports or run snmp on all the machines or both. However it does not break down the application usage. If you can bridge all the traffic onto one port on your switch, ntop (http://www.ntop.org) will provide a breakdown by port, although if you have a lot of traffic it may have trouble keeping up. It is a handy tool that makes it easy to spot virues and people running peer-to-peer file xfer but I don't completely trust it.
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