Need to know how to measure usage on cisco 1720

[josh82443]

Hi I need to know if theres a way for me to mesures the bandwidth usage from the Router (1720 Ver 12.0[7]T). I have a T-1 line and need to know how hard my bandwidth is being hit.

Thank you for your Time & Help!

Josh

[rmushtaq]

You can look at www.mrtg.org for this. It's a free ware.

[josh82443]

how will does these work & does it show the whole picture? I have 2 servers directly behind the router the may 100-200 computers. I can measure from the 1 server at a time. But it's only showing me half of the picture. What I would like to do is measure how much data is going though the wan side (so that I can see all traffic).

Thank you.

Josh

[#4]

I agree MRTG would be an easy way to go. If you do not have a lot of time, and want to do it easily, (without learning how to use MRTG and RRDtool) and you have a Windows PC or server you can install on, I would highly reccomend using:

http://open-innovations.com/mrtgbundle.html

This will walk all the interfaces on your 1700 and give you a basic Bytes in Out for each. you will need WinPcap installed. It takes me about 20 mins. to set one up. Good luck!

[d.rehfeldt]

Good answer. Another alternative for those persons comfortable with Linux you should take a look at Cacti for graphing your network at http://www.raxnet.net/