----- "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> escreveu: > Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > Matt: > > > >> why not just use your current cacti setup and > >> enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like > >> the simplest and cheapest approach. > > > > As I understand it, I would actually have to > > enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts. > > > > Am I wrong? > > > > Yes - the host would see the total traffic. The only other way to > separate it would be something upstream (switch/router, etc.) that knows how to do > sflow plus a collector device. These are typically pretty expensive. For > some small number of guests it might be cheaper to add NICs to your hosts and > bridge the guests to individual NICs where you could monitor on either the host > interface or the connected switch port. You might be able to simulate this with > some clever use of vlans but I'm not sure how they interact with the > virtual nic bridges. Hum... I haven't tried it myself but maybe it is possible to try on the virtual NICs. The only drawback is that the need to create a way to link the data from the vifs to the corret guest :) Antonio. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Antonio S. Martins Jr. - Support Analist | "Only The Shadow Knows | | Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Brasil| what evil lurks in the | | NPD - Núcleo de Processamento de Dados | Heart of Men!" | | E-Mail: asmartins at uem.br / shadow at uem.br | !!! Linux User: 52392 !!! | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Real Programmers don’t need comments — the code is obvious." -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.