Woogi Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 At work we have a few servers that we purchased in the past, and we are about to 'retire' them and will have no use for them. I was wondering if there would be an 'easy' way (NOT using one of the servers as a proxy, or internet gateway) but I am looking for a way to monitor network traffic/bandwidth usage. Does anyone have any ideas/software to check out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 At work we have a few servers that we purchased in the past, and we are about to 'retire' them and will have no use for them. I was wondering if there would be an 'easy' way (NOT using one of the servers as a proxy, or internet gateway) but I am looking for a way to monitor network traffic/bandwidth usage. Does anyone have any ideas/software to check out? Do your switches have span ports? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bit Hunter Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I have always used ntop for all the network monitoring tasks... Works best under Windows, but will work under Windows... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I'd suggest installing cacti ( http://www.cacti.net/ ) It does pretty good and has several plugins that can do exactly what you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woogi Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 Do your switches have span ports? Well we are using Dell Power connect 6248. Not sure if we have a 'span' port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 You just need to setup you routers to send SNMP information and use one of the old servers for something like MRTG. If you need more indepth information then your looking at configuring your switches to use a span/mirror port or setting up a network tap and running DPI on the resulting stream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woogi Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 Ok, well what we want to do is monitor for folks streaming music/videos. I have looked into wireshark, but that still looks like it needs to be installed on a the 'default gateway'. We are looking to do something 'low profile' so that if it crashes, or we screw up the install, it doesnt bring down the whole office. It would appear by both trial and error and the sugguestions I have gotten that this needs to involve the router. Does anyone know of a way to avoid this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Wiretaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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