Cisco interface - GB of transfer software

Tue Sep 30 16:18:38 UTC 2008

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates at brightok.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:58 AM
To: Daniel Senie
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cisco interface - GB of transfer software

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

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