[Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

[paxindustria at gmail.com (Alaric)]

I've had really good experience grabbing Nagios perf data as  graphing it with other tools.   I think the Splunk4Nagios app is a could example of how you could do it (https://github.com/skywalka/splunk-for-nagios)  you may not want to use Splunk due to cost, but I suspect the model would be pretty easily migrated to similar tools...  that being said, all that may be overkill, Cacti is pretty awesome at this sort of thing all by it's lonesome 

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On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.google.com/search?q=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counter&oq=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counter
> 
> I haven't used any of them in ages (I'm back to hardware design, thank
> Science), but I had a plugin (or plugin + SNMP?) that monitored all the
> interface stats back when.
> 
> *
> Drew Van Zandt
> Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
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> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>wrote:
> 
>> ???  I use Nagios extensively on our system to monitor for uptime on
>> machines/daemons, and alert us when something breaks.  But I'm not aware of
>> it having the capability to show cumulative network usage, by remote host,
>> across a span of time, for every machine on a network.  If it does, could
>> you point me to which plugin one might use for that?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> DR
>> 
>> 
>> On 02/06/2013 12:21 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>> 
>>> Cacti, Nagios, and Intellipool are all solid for this.
>>> 
>>> *
>>> Drew Van Zandt
>>> Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
>>> Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
>>> *
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We've got some machine (or machines) sucking up a lot of bandwidth on our
>>>> network.  I'm trying to pin down exactly what, but not having much luck
>>>> so
>>>> far.
>>>> 
>>>> The network's got about a dozen machines, behind a firewall.  What I'd
>>>> like to see is a high-level view of the whole network's bandwidth usage
>>>> over the span of, say, 24 hours.  I.e., which machines are using the most
>>>> bandwidth (i.e., in Gb), and connections to which external sites are
>>>> causing most of the hogging.
>>>> 
>>>> Clearly, micro-level tools like iftop aren't going to cut it here, as
>>>> they
>>>> only show me a) what's using bandwidth right now, and b) an individual
>>>> machine basis.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried running darkstat on each machine in the network, but it didn't
>>>> really give me what I was looking for.  Again, the reporting was
>>>> per-machine, and so didn't provide a comprehensive view.  (Among other
>>>> problems.)
>>>> 
>>>> Bandwidthd looks like it might have some promise, but would take some
>>>> time
>>>> to set up to give me a comprehensive view.  (I.e., configure a pgsql
>>>> database.)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone have any particular recommendations for a situation like this?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> DR
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