Cisco interface - GB of transfer software

Dale_Turner · September 30, 2008, 2:51pm

Good morning all,

I hope my post isn't too off topic but I was wondering if anyone is using some open source or purchased software that would give me the monthly Data transfer from cisco switch ports so I can monitor/bill against some hosting customers. I know we can create our own but looking to see if there was something that anyone is using and recommends.

Thank you very much

Dale Turner

Blake_Pfankuch1 · September 30, 2008, 3:01pm

I would be interested in this as well.

Charles_N_Wyble3 · September 30, 2008, 3:08pm

I like to use ntop (from ntop.org) for this, along with MRTG. Others prefer cacti. I found MRTG easier to setup. It comes down to personal preference.

Blake Pfankuch wrote:

Daniel_Senie2 · September 30, 2008, 3:39pm

I like to use ntop (from ntop.org) for this, along with MRTG. Others prefer cacti. I found MRTG easier to setup. It comes down to personal preference.

MRTG provides graphs of usage, but I'm not aware of it providing a monthly total usage (or 95% or other) in report form (though would be happy to learn otherwise).

Does ntop provide a way to generate a monthly report?

I believe the others posting are interested in this from a billing perspective. I share their interest.

Raymond_Dijkxhoorn · September 30, 2008, 3:52pm

Hi!

I like to use ntop (from ntop.org) for this, along with MRTG. Others prefer cacti. I found MRTG easier to setup. It comes down to personal preference.

MRTG provides graphs of usage, but I'm not aware of it providing a monthly total usage (or 95% or other) in report form (though would be happy to learn otherwise).

Does ntop provide a way to generate a monthly report?

Check RTG.

Bye,
Raymond.

Jack_Bates · September 30, 2008, 3:58pm

Daniel Senie wrote:

MRTG provides graphs of usage, but I'm not aware of it providing a monthly total usage (or 95% or other) in report form (though would be happy to learn otherwise).

Does ntop provide a way to generate a monthly report?

I believe the others posting are interested in this from a billing perspective. I share their interest.

Cacti and MRTG both have support for rrdtool backends. How the rrd is processed is up to you. A simple script to poll data and do some basic math and email the results, or generate a graph. Cacti has several plugins for sending reports. MRTG users tend to just script additionals. It's not as gui oriented as cacti, IMO.

Each has pros and cons. If you have a sound internal php/mysql setup, cacti is a breeze and the plugin php scripts are cute for the non-techies.

-Jack

Braun_Mike · September 30, 2008, 4:18pm

I have had good success with Netflow data to solve this, and if you
don't mind spending a little money, Scrutinizer is a good tool to use.

Mike

Shane_Gibson · September 30, 2008, 4:31pm

Dale Turner wrote:

I hope my post isn't too off topic but I was wondering if anyone is
using some open source or purchased software that would give me the
monthly Data transfer from cisco switch ports so I can monitor/bill
against some hosting customers.

Dale,

I use MRTG with the mrtg_totals.pl script. It does a pretty decent job:

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If you're already running MRTG (or set it up), it's easy to add on to
your environment.

v/r
Shane

Mills_Charles · September 30, 2008, 4:59pm

Same here. I bill my customers on 95% percentile. I use Advent's
Manageengine Netflow Analyzer

Paul_Kelly_Blacknigh · September 30, 2008, 8:42pm

MRTG + GBGraph + 95th.pl allows for MB/GB/port/vlan and also 95th percentile on same.

It doesn't take much to build a small report that picks up on the files left behind by 95th.pl and GBGraph.

Paul

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jvanoppen · September 30, 2008, 11:27pm

RTG is a great solution for 95th percentile if you are building your own
system since it puts everything into an SQL database and comes with a
nice php front end to start with.

John van Oppen
Spectrum Networks LLC
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206.973.8300 (main office)

Dale_Turner · October 1, 2008, 12:33am

Thank you all for the recommendations.

Cheers

Dale Turner

Dale Turner wrote:

Brent_Paddon · October 14, 2008, 8:07pm

http://www.hughes.com.au/products/traffacct/

Built specifically for byte accounting for billing purposes and can poll a number of devices. Built for billing and free
(though not maintained it 'just works').

Brent

Brent Paddon

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