server bandwidth-monitoring

Stythys · 2010-02-11 05:41:30

so..right now, I'm using ntop (http://twilightlair.net:5000) as my bandwidth-monitor for my server. The two problems I have are that:

1. When looking at traffic summaries, it lists specific hosts with how much traffic they've sent/recv'd. instead of the destinations they're going to (i.e. which subdomains and whatnot.) It does say what subdomains they've gone to when you look at detailed info but that doesn't help much if there all a million hosts to sift through.

2. Almost half my traffic is just listed as "Other TCP/UDP Ports." The only way I see to get port-info is the "last minute distribution" on the bottom of the main page, not a monthly summary or something of the like.

any ideas?

windowbreaker · 2010-02-11 16:53:05

I'm not a big fan of ntop for the same reason. I'm currently evaluating bandwidth monitoring tools to see which best fits my needs. There's a great listing of bandwidth monitoring tools for linux, along with a short description on this page: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/bandwidth-mon … linux.html I've learned of a handful of tools I didn't know about that I'll be experimenting with.

My needs are slightly different than yours, however. I need to take bandwidth measurements throughout the day at sample intervals and record the results into a log file or csv. I'll combine this with a script I wrote to upload a large file during the bandwidth test. I need to know the maximum upload rate in order to dynamically adjust my traffic shaping parameters.

Let me know which tools you end up using.

Stythys · 2010-02-23 21:17:30

no one has any ideas? =/

I'm looking into darkstat but can't seem to get it to work. After running 'darkstart -i eth0 -p 4001' and going to localhost:4001 the browser page just keeps trying to load it forever..

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#1 2010-02-11 05:41:30

server bandwidth-monitoring

#2 2010-02-11 16:53:05

Re: server bandwidth-monitoring

#3 2010-02-23 21:17:30

Re: server bandwidth-monitoring

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