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I was just too dumb/ignorant/lazy to get mrtg/nagios going.

Cacti was more straight-forward, even a drooling moron can install it! ]]>Dec 6th 2008 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/May 5th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
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I can also monitor Latency and other SNMP variables. There are a whold bunch of templates. Best of all, I can see the total bandwidth (read GB/month) off of any window. Totally beats MRTG.

Good tutorial though!]]>Aug 2nd 2006 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Cacti]]>Aug 2nd 2006 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/Aug 2nd 2006 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
nice how to btw]]>Aug 2nd 2006 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
Just wish D-Link had the sense to put SNMP on their freaking routers...ugh!]]>Aug 2nd 2006 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
Also, if you just want to monitor bandwidth on your local computer, 'NetStat Live' from www.analogx.com works quite well. It's totally free too.]]>Aug 2nd 2006 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
]]>Aug 2nd 2006 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/It uses SNMP and is dead simple to use.
not the prettiest or most configurable, but great for everyday all-the-time use.
I found it a while ago on one of those meta-meta sites. or something.

http://codefromthe70s.org/3rtg.asp]]>Aug 2nd 2006 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/Aug 2nd 2006 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm]]>Aug 2nd 2006 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.dd-wrt.com/ . I've also heard good things about OpenWRT, found at http://openwrt.org/ , but do not know much about it. Either choice is good, but again, I would reccomend DD-WRT.]]>Aug 2nd 2006 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/Aug 2nd 2006 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
For software, I got a customized free Linux distribution called IPCop. It generates graphs just like the ones pictured here. For traffic and for system resource usage. And it includes a web cache via squid, a DNS cache, intrusion detection and rule-based firewall protection via snort, traffic shaping, DHCP server, local DNS, network segmentation so you can treat your wireless network differently from your wired network... all kinds of stuff. I HIGHLY recommend it. Oh, and it is end-to-end web-based. Quite nice... almost feels like cheating.]]>Aug 2nd 2006 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
*/5 ***** for every 5 minutes. But for those who like to list it out that kewl with me.]]>Aug 2nd 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/01/how-to-measure-your-bandwidth-with-snmp/
When I go to http://localhost/mrtg, all I get is an apache directory listing of 3 pngs of icons, but no sexy graphs. Any ideas on what I did wrong or how to fix it?

Also, even though my crontab is exactly as specified with the log location as /var/log/mrtg.log, this file doesn't exist, my log goes into /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log . Any ideas why this is?

Thanks.]]>May 5th 2009 12:08AM