Or, as an alternative, check out Vulture at
http://www.vix.com/vulture/
It was an easy build, and I personally like it better than MRTG.
TomP
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Jared Mauch wrote:
> Look at mrtg, or build your own. mrtg is very neato and likes
> lots of different interfaces and gives you nice graphs.
>
> As long as you've got a fast machine, and not a lot of boxes,
> it handles it really fast.
>
> On a dark and stormy night, Stephen Balbach said:
> >
> > Currently developing a system to track usage stats on cisco interfaces in
> > order to bill based on usage (burstable service).
> >
> > Pulling the IfOctets of total bytes, the stats seems to mysteriously reset
> > to 0 on occasion. No reboots, etc.. throws the count off and makes one
> > wonder how reliable the 'total bytes' stats are.
> >
> > What is the best method of getting reliable cisco usage stats, on a 5
> > minute basis, over a long period. Prefer SNMP because of the low resource
> > overhead vs. an expect script. Unable to find a SNMP variable that shows
> > the 5-minute average as seen in 'sh int'.
>
> I think there's some snmp variable someplace buried in there
> for it, can someone at cisco point Stephen in the right direction?
>
> - jared
>
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