From: Radioactive Frog (pbhatkoti@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 12:28:00 ARST
oh i love NTOP/Cacti/nagios
Rick - how much that netlogic box/software costs? just an indication?
What was the reason to choose a commercial box over 'freebie'?
Cheers
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Rick Tyrell <rtyrell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I forgot to mention that there are some CACTI templates people have created
> that can grab data from NBAR that graph SMTP, WWW etc.
>
> http://www.cacti.net/
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Rick Tyrell <rtyrell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There are some good open source tools that can track per host bandwidth.
> > We have used IPAudit http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > It will graph per user bandwidth and keep a history of the usage. This
> > will not give you an application specific breakdown, but will tell you
> who
> > the top users are.
> >
> > We have also used NTOP for real time usage and that has worked "ok".
> CACTI
> > works great for graphing individual ports/cpu and backbone traffic.
> >
> > To shape user bandwidth we recently purchased Procera NetLogic
> > http://www.proceranetworks.com/
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > -Rick
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Mike Lange <mikelange16@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> has anyone dealt with coming up a good solution for tracking bandwidth
> >> usage per user (or just per IP?). The LAN is running 3560's and 4500
> >> in the core, the traffic then routes to the ASA5520 with CSC module
> >> and off to the internet. What solution would you recommend to track
> >> bandwidth usage per user. 4500 doesn't support netflow, so that's not
> >> an option. ASA has some limited graphs on the firewall dashboard, but
> >> it's not good for this task because the top talkers like MAIL servers
> >> and the actual OUTSIDE hosts take up the top spots and push out any
> >> data about user traffic. Is there any 3rd party appliance that can do
> >> this? Websense? I personally believe CSC should have this capability,
> >> but it doesn't.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
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