hi,
I am using Centos 6.3 for squid server which is functional.I want to monitor bandwidth of my Samba Server which is configure on 192.168.1.100/24.

Is there any utility or software by which i can monitor the total bandwidth consume within every 5 min.

2nd thing i have a IP based 192.168.1.10/24 camera on my LAN.I also want to check its bandwidth consumption.

Please guide me.
thanks,
gardenair

read the interface statistics for example # of bytes
Bw (in bit per sec) - (# of bytes * 8) / (5 * 60)
then clear statistics

Not understand.Well i have google & find ntop utilityReference

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-i...-fedora-linux/

In download link i found two ntop categories

ntopng-data-1.1_6932.tgz
ntopng-1.1_6932.tgz

I choose the second one which is 45.1 MB in size. According to the web site i follow the steps but
unable to execute # ./autogen.sh inside the ntop directory !
This is out of sop of my question but if ntop is the solution then please guide me.

thanks

if u type ifconfig in linux shell you get a list of interfaces and their statistics -
for example:
[avi_c@infra-l-avi eth0]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:01:8A:F8
inet addr:172.17.170.28 Bcast:172.17.170.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fd00:0:20d2:2570:20c:29ff:fe01:8af8/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe01:8af8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10286380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9353562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3016810193 (2.8 GiB) TX bytes:3380608840 (3.1 GiB)


now take the RX/TX pkts and calculate the downs/uptream-BW
there are linux API's to clear these statistics.

You can monitor the live bandwidth usage with the tool "iftop"