RE: bandwidth monitoring for baystacks

From: Stephen <bitbucket(at)look.ca>
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 11:13:40 EST

Michel,

MRTG & RRDTool (mrtg.org) are tools that I've installed in NOCs that I've worked in to monitor b/w in realtime. With all the pretty little pictures for management to gawk at, I've had no problems in justifying the provisioning of new links. As far as I know, there is a MS port (you'll have to check the website).

Cheers,
Stephen

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From: Bruyere, Michel [mailto:mbruyere@ezemcanada.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:22 AM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: bandwidth monitoring for baystacks

Hi all,

        I'm sorry to post this little off-topic question but its my last ressource i can rely on.

        I need to monitor the bandwidth between 2 switches (Baystack 350-24T with dual optical fiber exp port). I can see statistics for every port (1 to 26, including both fiber ports) when i telnet in the switch, but i would like to have a tool that will help me to monitor the bandwidth usage in real time and that will allow me to do some graphs or reports (something that i can use/present to the corp. administrators and that they will understand) on the load of the fiber link

NB.: We are in a M$ world, no *nix boxes. If possible the tool should be freeware or cheap with a demo version.

Thanks a lot

Michel Bruyere
Network/systems administrator

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