Re: traffic monitoring tool with total statistics
On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:47:53 +0200
Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm searching for a network traffic monitoring tool which supports to
> report total numbers, like absolute mbytes/gbytes of ingoing/outgoing
> traffic per week/month. The tools i've tested so far (munin, mrtg)
> seem to support only relative numbers like curent, maximal, minmal
> and average bytes per second.
Have you tried vnstat? It will give daily/weekly/monthly totals of
incoming/outgoing traffic by interface (i.e. eth0, eth1). Basic info
and download (if not in Debian repository) found here:
http://humdi.net/vnstat/.
>
> I also gave darkstat a try, and this one indeed counts the total
> transfered bytes splitted by in/out, but it doesn't show daily, weekly
> or monthly values. Additionally its graphs are not very informative.
>
> As I already use munin for host monitoring, I would be glad to hear
> that mrtg or some munin plugin supports the kind of statistics I'm
> searching for. But so far I failed to find something appropriate.
>
> greetings,
> jonas
>
>
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