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Title: Network Meter
Post by: Dark Storm on April 02, 2003, 04:12:44 PM

Hi.

Anyone know a network meter to use in a e-smith box? Like DU-Meter. I tried bwm but only gives the usage of that moment. I want one that show the usage form a period of time. In my case from the month.

Thanks

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Michiel on April 02, 2003, 04:27:19 PM

I think you're looking for http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/e-smith-sysmon/. That will give you all traffic statistics for the last day, week, month and year.

Michiel

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: philippe peltier on April 02, 2003, 04:35:43 PM

I know cacti, but I do not know anyone who has installed it on sme yet.

Has someone already tried ?

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Dark Storm on April 02, 2003, 05:09:52 PM

Nope that's not what i looking for.

I looking for now is program that shows the amount of data that the server send and receive.

Something like this.

day 1 TX 20MB RX 10 MB
 .
 .
 .

april tx 1GB rx 548 MB

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Michiel on April 02, 2003, 05:47:51 PM

In that case you might want to take a look at iptraf (see www.redhat.com for an rpm).

Turn on logging and run it in the background (iptraf -i eth1 -B). That should give you a logfile with all the info you're looking for.

Michiel

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Dark Storm on April 02, 2003, 07:29:12 PM

thanks.

that exactly what i want.

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Sean on April 03, 2003, 12:28:28 PM

Have a look at http://www.dynw.com/iog/ as well. It works (as long as you also set up SNMP on the SME server) and looks pretty, too.

Sean

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Andrej Fercic on April 04, 2003, 12:16:37 AM

How to stop logging

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on April 04, 2003, 02:10:48 AM

Sean,

Have you or anyone tryed to install iogSME before? I have searched the forums but not found any definate howto's , also what is SNMP, and why is it needed, as on the web site it does not mention SNMP just MRTG which does the same but in more detail by the looks of it?!?!

Thanks!

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on April 04, 2003, 02:35:42 AM

Hmmm did a bit of searching and might try out Cacti, but it still seems not to provide just the simple graphs that iog provides.

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Jesper Knudsen on April 05, 2003, 10:42:44 AM

All,

I swear to MRTG for all kind of monitoring. Have a look at

http://www.swerts-knudsen.dk/mrtg/

I can monitor pretty much everything via MRTG (disks, CPU, LAN, WAN and even SpamAssassin)

Rgds,
Jesper

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Sean on April 06, 2003, 02:56:12 PM

Cyrus,

I have install IOG on SME. That's why I mentioned it.

SNMP is the acronym for Simple Network Managenet Protocol. It is used for getting metrics from networked machines for management purposes. Go to http://www.net-snmp.org/ for a very good implementation of it.

When putting SNMP on SME for IOG you will need to tighten the security so that it only listens to localhost (127.0.0.1). Then you will have to do a 'snmpwalk' of your machine to determine which interface number is your external NIC, plug that into the iog.cfg and by following the instructions in the readme you should get there.

Good luck.

Sean

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Sean on April 06, 2003, 03:24:52 PM

Installed... Management... Managenet? What the heck is managenet?

Gads, I need to spellcheck myself before I hit 'Post'. (And, yes, I _did_ mean 'gads', not 'deities' ;-)

Too much beer, not enough brain.

Sean

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on April 07, 2003, 10:15:31 AM

Sean,

Any chance of you writing a howto for this? Not that it sounds hard to install, just so people can refer to your howto in responce to questions like "Anyone know a network meter to use in a e-smith box?" instead of giving them instructions over and over :-)

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Sean on April 15, 2003, 05:37:23 PM

Check your email, Cyrus. All you need to do is try it and maybe pretty it up for me ;-)

Sean

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Ben Broekhuizen on April 15, 2003, 06:20:42 PM

I want it too! :)

Title: Re: Network Meter
Post by: Sean on April 16, 2003, 12:59:05 PM

Okay, go here: http://www.inabiaf.com/howto-iog to get it in all its alpha glory.

Sean