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l008com · Oct 10, 2002, 12:26 AM

Are there any Bandwidth Monitoring programs out there? I'm looking for something I can run on my Slow OS X Server. It doesn't have a lot of power to begin with, so I'd like something thats very "lite". Plus a nice viewing interface, like a web interface, with graphs etc. That would be nice. Stats and stuff too. Also hella stable, as my server has been running for 23 days as of me typing this, and I'd hate to have to restart that :-)

johann · Oct 10, 2002, 04:13 PM

i have some perl scripts.. but no nice GUIs..

one of the servers (lunix) i admin has been up for over 400 days.. i'm just going for a record now.. i'm scared to reboot.

if you know some perl.. you can have it make some graphs for you i bet...

i post the perl if intersted.

parsec · Oct 10, 2002, 04:34 PM

You might want to look into
Webalizer
There's probably an os x build, if not I doubt it would be too difficult to get it to compile.

l008com · Oct 10, 2002, 06:19 PM

Originally posted by johann:
i have some perl scripts.. but no nice GUIs..

one of the servers (lunix) i admin has been up for over 400 days.. i'm just going for a record now.. i'm scared to reboot.

if you know some perl.. you can have it make some graphs for you i bet...

i post the perl if intersted.

Yeah but I've been paying close attention, and perl scripts really bog down my server, its only a 225 MHz 604e, thats why I'd rather a true program.

l008com · Oct 10, 2002, 06:19 PM

Originally posted by parsec:
You might want to look into
Webalizer
There's probably an os x build, if not I doubt it would be too difficult to get it to compile.

I'm looking for bandwidth stats, not web server stats.

johann · Oct 10, 2002, 06:59 PM

try this:
its for linux but probably work.. i think its perl (not sure)..
225 604e aint that slow

http://ifmonitor.preteritoimperfeito.com/

Camelot · Oct 11, 2002, 01:34 AM

MRTG - http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

It is perl-based, but it's very lightweight and creates great-looking graphs of bandwidth usage from any SNMP-enabled device (in fact, it can graph any SNMP variable).

You can run it on your machine with no problem. You won't even notice it's there.

besson3c · Oct 11, 2002, 10:34 AM

MRTG and the like will calculate bandwidth of the overall connection, but not that of individual virtually hosted domains.

I, too have created Perl scripts in which to do this.

l008com · Oct 20, 2002, 09:59 PM

I downloaded MRTG and tried to compile it, but doing so is way beyond me. I'm a mac user, not a unix guy. Is there an easier way? Or a similar program that comes with an installer anywhere?

johann · Oct 21, 2002, 07:36 PM

also MRTG needs SNMP enabled devices..
i'll see if i can get it compiled tonite and see what happens.

l008com · Oct 22, 2002, 11:41 PM

Originally posted by johann:
also MRTG needs SNMP enabled devices..
i'll see if i can get it compiled tonite and see what happens.

Well, any luck?

sfederman · Oct 23, 2002, 12:36 AM

You could use fink to install mrtg, it's currently available as an installable package...

-Scot

l008com · Oct 23, 2002, 12:39 AM

Can you give me a little more information. What is fink and how does it work?

eno · Oct 23, 2002, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by l008com:
Can you give me a little more information. What is fink and how does it work?

2151 posts, and you don't know what fink is?!?!?!?????

sfederman · Oct 23, 2002, 10:46 AM

Here is a link to fink. It is a project that ports Unix open source software to Mac OS X. The great thing about it is that once fink is installed, you can install any of the packages it supports simply by typing fink install [name of package]. Fink will then download all the necessary files & compile them as necessary...

-Scot

johann · Oct 23, 2002, 01:30 PM

sorry i haven't had a chance.. really busy.

and yes fink is the way to go for osx meets unix apps.