[CentOS] Data consumption (external connections only)

[John R Pierce]

On 02/26/12 12:34 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> use some iptables rules to select the specific traffic you want to
> monitor, and view the packet and byte counts via iptables -L -vn

to expand on this, I'd probably write a perl or python script that ran 
the iptables -vnL command, and parses the output, and store the values 
in a file or sql database along with a timestamp.   If all your iptables 
sampling rules are in the INPUT table, you can restrict the output with 
`iptables -vnL INPUT`...   this script could feed the data to cacti or 
another rrdtool/mrtg style monitoring system.

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