Re: Network IP analysis?

[nicholas harteau <panic () voodoo net>]

Iain Lea's (author of tin?) router-stats package does just that, if i
remember.  although it's output isn't half as pretty as mrtg's.

ftp://ftp.scn.de/pub/networking/router-stats/

> MRTG is a great graphing tool for small applications.  Unfortunately 
> the package does not scale very well for my purposes.  The snmp polling
> and data storage in the logfiles are areas that I have problems with
> using MRTG.  Are there any other viable alternatives to MRTG, or are
> there any existing mods to mrtg that graph right out of a file rather
> than polling for itself?   I already have the data I need and would 
> like to reuse it.  If possible I would like to have a package that
> is separated into 3 sections.  One section can be called upon to
> do polling or gathering data out of a repository.  The second can
> be called upon to do statistics runs.  The 3rd can be called to provide
> graphs on demand.
>
>
> Tim Peiffer                           peiffer () nts umn edu
> Networking and Telecommunications Services
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>
> > MRTG is a great tool that we use a lot - especially good if you want to offer traffic monitoring to customers. MRTG 
> > can get the stats from the customers port and display that as a GIF on your web server, accessed using the 
> > customers ID and password. Stops>  all those calls from customers asking if their access lines are overloaded...


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