Bandwidth monitoring

[Cybersquads]

Hey,

 

Just wondering what software/systems or methods everyone uses to monitor bandwidth across your server network. I’m just wondering what’s good and what isn’t.

[xpservers]

DU Meter

[swish]

Cacti perhaps?

[adamnp]

cacti cacti cacti!

 

dont use anything else.

[xpservers]

Hey guys I was looking into Cacti and its a very solid program. Can you guys use it to monitor CPU and resource useage as well ?

 

Another question. If I install the Cacti application on a Linux box how do I set it up to monitor Windows remote servers ? does it use SNMP query ? what do you need to modify on the windows remote boxes to allow Cacti to collect data ?

 

Thanks for any input guys

[HIS-MOTHER]

Once Cacti is installed the admin GUI is very friendly. It does in fact offer SNMP as a polling option as long as you set/install SNMP agent on the windows box and make sure you use private communities not public.

[agentpr24]

We are currently using DU Meter to. What about Cacti? Does it worth to buy?

 

I dont want something to complicate my life lol

[jbiloh]

Cacti will simplify your life. Been using it for 4-5 years.

[jcarney1987]

I know this is an old forum post but does cati monitor all applications for example say it tells you that ts used 1gb a day and aaserver used 2GB a day?

[KingJ]

No, Cacti only graphs SNMP data, which does not include bandwidth per server, it's very difficult to achieve that.

[Juiced PC Gear]

Bitmeter.

 

Very simple and effective.