From: Sheahan, John (John.Sheahan@priceline.com)
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 10:01:26 GMT-3
Ngenius is really good for looking at bandwidth both real time and over
a 30 day period. The only problem is, it's kind of expensive. A couple
of years ago, I wrote some PERL scripts that outperform MRTG (in my
opinion). The scripts go out and grab the counters from any interface,
it then waits a minute, subtracts, does the calculation to find bits per
second, then uploads the info into a MYSQL database. At the end of the
script, it pulls the data out of the database for the periods of a year,
month, day and graphs them using a free graphing utility called
Ploticus. The graphs are awesome and more detailed than MRTG because
they don't average a days traffic when doing the weekly calculation and
they don't average the weeks traffic when doing the monthly calculation
etc...All points on the graphs are real data points. The nice thing
about them, you can go in at any time and pull a graph out of the MYSQL
database for exact traffic statistics for any time period over the last
several years (not averages)...you can't do this with MRTG.
The scripts have been running flawlessly for years now and it's easy to
add/remove new or outdated links.
The people from Ploticus posted an example of one of my graphs on their
site:
http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/gallery/realworld_sheahan/
If anyone wants the code, I'll be happy to forward it to them...it's all
free but does require PERL and MYSQL intervention.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
john matijevic
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:21 AM
To: Group Study
Subject: bandwidth utilization products
Hello Team,
I have evaluated the following products already:
mrtg
cacti
ciscoworks
Does anyone know of any other bandwidth utilization programs, that
they
prefer over others?
Sincerely,
-- John Matijevic, CCIE #13254 U.S. Installation Group Senior Network Engineer 954-969-7160 ext. 1147 (office) 305-321-6232 (cell)
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