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How to monitor network bandwidth usage

cisco_himg
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‎01-23-2009 08:47 AM - edited ‎03-06-2019 03:36 AM

Can someone tell me what to use to monitor network bandwidth for my company?

Does Cisco make a program or GUI that allows me to monitor?

THank you!

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Giuseppe Larosa
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‎01-23-2009 09:24 AM

Hello Dustin,

a very good free tool is MRTG

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

We use it and allow to produce nice graphs published as web pages.

It is widely used and it has 10 years of history.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

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cisco_himg
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In response to Giuseppe Larosa

‎01-23-2009 09:49 AM

thank you. this looks a little difficult to install. is it?

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joseph.derrick
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In response to cisco_himg

‎01-24-2009 08:22 AM

no, its not. you can install it on unix and windows boxes as well. it all depends on you.

another tool is 'rrdtool' which is also being developed by the person who developed mrtg. a front-end of this one is 'cacti'.

thanks !

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cisco_lite
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In response to joseph.derrick

‎01-24-2009 08:37 AM

Is MRTG a licensed software.

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MUHAMMAD SHAHEEN
Level 4
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In response to cisco_lite

‎01-24-2009 11:44 AM

Hi,

Its free as long as you do not break the licencing rules.

Here is the link to explain you further and to download/install software.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Hope this helps.....

Shaheen

cisco_lite
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In response to MUHAMMAD SHAHEEN

‎01-24-2009 12:43 PM

Could you also please tell the difference between PRTG and MRTG.

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MUHAMMAD SHAHEEN
Level 4
Level 4
In response to cisco_lite

‎01-25-2009 06:14 AM

Hi,

Google friend took me to this link which explain the difference between both. In some cases PRTG commercial licence is required.

http://www.paessler.com/blog/2006/09/25/prtg-traffic-grapher/comparing-prtg-traffic-grapher-with-mrtg/

Hope this helps....

Shaheen

mlenco
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In response to cisco_himg

‎01-26-2009 06:17 AM

just make sure you use snmp v2 and higher as v1 cannot increment gigabit rates and will give you false data. It will work with FA but not Gig.

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