[c-nsp] Total bandwidth usage

[Shishir Belbase]

We use Cacti (www.cacti.net) to collect the bw utilization from our various
edge routers.  You can use the GUI and/or feed the raw data into a
perl/Excel module that sends out weekly/monthly reports via email.

Shishir Belbase

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kanagaraj Krishna [mailto:kanagaraj at aims.com.my]
>Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:40 AM
>To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Total bandwidth usage
>
>Hi,
>   We are currently looking into usage based charges for our customers as
>an
>alternative option. Are there any free application thats is able to get
>total
>bandwidth usage (daily/weekly/monthly etc reports) which are port based?
>MRTG
>only gets bandwidth utilization rate and not the exact total utilization. I
>have a few questions:
>
>- If an application monitors total utilization for a number of ports on
>  different devices wouldn't it be cpu, memory and bandwidth intensive?
>- Are there any application that gathers bandwidth usage on intervals? If
>yes
>wouldn't it be a problem if the interface counters are reseted?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>Kanagaraj Krishna
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