Topic: Using Cacti to Monitor Traffic

[Mark Baker]

Thanks for reading.

I have Cacti installed and functioning on 5.12 but need to monitor local traffic.  I do not want to monitor cisco routers via snmp, just the local network.  I want to see something like 2 graphs.  1 for eth0 and 1 for eth1.  Each graph has multiple data ranges, i.e. WWW traffic is in green, traffic on port 16001 is in yellow, etc.

Where do I need to start looking for this info?  I seem to keep running into sites that only tell how to get data from external sources, or that say to use iapc to gather ip accounting info but don't say how to interface it with cacti.

Thanks again for the direction,
- Mark Baker

[Duncan]

You might try something like this
http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/eneo-sysmon-3.0-15/

No howto. Just install the 3 rpms and look for it in the server manager.
Not as in depth as you might require but very good all the same.

Regards Duncan

[Mahmood Al-Yousif]

Thank you for the reference Duncan, this is exactly what the doctor ordered!!

I wonder if you (or anyone) can tell me how to not only display the bit/sec graphs but also the volume of traffic?

Where does this package store it's scripts and are they easily editable to perform such a function?

many thanks once again
mahmood