Topic: Monitoring

[Jay]

Firstly I'd like to say how impressed I've been with the E-Smith gateway. I am a MS certified consultant working in a MS only corporate envirnonment where NT4 dominates the desktop and server population and there is nothing to touch the simplicity and stability of this product.

I am a relative novice at linux and I have a couple of questions:

I currently run in gateway mode, with an ADSL connection and 100mb ethernet connected to my server, no problems, however, I would like to :

a. view the performance of the network to see what the traffic is doing on both sides of the network
b. how can I monitor the security to see if I am being attacked and whether or not any attacks have been successfull ?

Thanks in advance and keep up the great work!

Jay

[Jay]

Would the Multi Router Traffic Grapher work on an E-Smith gateway ?

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

[Jeff Martin]

You might find these useful

--IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring utility.  IPTraf gathers
data like TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics
and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station
packet and byte counts.  

http://www.e-smith.org/contrib/rpm-index/RPM-iptraf-2.3.1-1.src.html

--Logcheck is software package that is designed to automatically run and check
system log files for security violations and unusual activity.  System checks are emailed to administrator address.

http://www.e-smith.org/contrib/rpm-index/RPM-logcheck-1.1.1-1.src.html

--add-on for the manager to allow easy viewing of server log files. You can find it in
Charlie's contrib area at ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/contrib/CharlieBrady. The
file is e-smith-viewlogfiles-0.0.1-02.noarch.rpm.

--E-smith monitor let's you monitor an e-smith server from the e-smith manager. Currently, you can monitor CPU load, RAM load, SWAP load, HD usage and all net interfaces traffic. There are two versions of the package: spanish and english. All the graphs are generated on demand

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/eneo/RPMS/noarch/e-smith-monitor_en-1.0-02.noarch.rpm

[Jay]

Excellent, thanks for the information.

[Sidney]

Jeff,

 I have a question about

"E-smith monitor let's you monitor an e-smith server from the e-smith
manager. Currently, you can monitor CPU load, RAM load, SWAP load, HD usage and all net interfaces traffic".

When I try to install it is says it needs sysstat 3.32 & rrdtool 1.0.28

do you know were I can find them ?

is there a rpm that has all the components all in one rpm?

iptraf question,

 I type rpm -i iptraf-2.3.1-1.src.rpm and nothing happens.

It just goes back to the #

am I installing it wrong ?

does it show up in the manager ?


Thanks

[Jeff Martin]

sorry I should have posted a link to the e-smith monitor how-to

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/eneo/RPMS/noarch/e-smith_monitor.html


The IPtraf main site is at http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf/

You'll find all kinds of documentation there.

After installation, you can start the program by simply entering

iptraf

try installing ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/CharlieBrady/RPMS/i386-RH7.0/iptraf-2.3.1-1.i386.rpm

looks like your trying to install the source rpm

[sidney]

Thanks Jeff