G'day.

I am running a Red Hat 8.0 Box at college that has a webserver, network crawler, and counter-strike server running on it. What i would like to do is monitor the bandwidth/traffic through the server's network card and display a graph on a webpage (like mrtg), so I can asses the likelyhood of other activities on the server causing lag on the counter-strike server. However, I do not have any kind of access to the router/switch to make snmp queries. I have already asked the University IT department for enough access to monitor my own bandwidth, and they said NO.

I have been searching on the web for a few weeks now, and have not been able to find any tools that will graph bandwidth without needing access to the router / switch that the server is connected to. Does anyone know of any utilities that will do this?

without access to your router you'll have to collect statistics yourself.

some infos i found (though a bit old):
http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/pulsar...or/index.shtml

more infos:

http://www.linuxathome.net/programs4.php

thanks for the info AltF4 :-)

You're welcome :-)

Question...

If you have access on your box.. why can you not run mrtg on *your box* to assess the bandwidth coming in on your network card?

Traffic coming into your machine for web traffic / counter-strike / what-have-you will hit your machine on it's public network interface, so you can just graph the traffic coming in on that, no?

Slick.

Yep, thats what I did, set up a snmp daemon do feed information to mrtg.

Hi Li-Wen,
How did you go about the index maker in RH8.0 I am trying to do the same. Can you give some light on this.
Thanks a million