Re: firewall-wizards digest, Vol 1 #674 - 9 msgs

["Don Jones" <don.jones () linuxmail org>]

Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Statistics for Firewalls

> Joe's answer is by far the best one so far.  MRTG is a >great tool and 
> can be snagged from 
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

I recomend trying RRDTool and an a frontend. 

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

RRD tool is  fromt the same author as MRTG but is faster and more modular, it is only in charge of storing the time 
series data, this enables different frontends to be used which provide the graphing, snmp polling etc. There are quite 
a few good ones avalible:

Cricket:
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/

NMIS:
http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/

Cacti:
http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/

I have some experience with the 3 above and they are all good, cricket does no frills graphing, nmis provides more 
information than just the graphs and cacti provides "pretty" graphs.

There are numerous other frontends avalible:

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=rrdtool

Overall this solution is recomended for graphing router interfaces, switch ports and the like, but can be modified to 
graph any time series data avalible via snmp.

Regards

Don Jones
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