Re: [hobbit] bandwidth usage in bytes on Linux

[Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina (at) wi.rr.com>]

There is a very well described MRTG interface for Hobbit.  I just 
implemented it at a customer site and it works as advertised.  The URL 
is in the help.

Jesper Johnson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm looking for a way to create graphs for hobbit on Linux to monitor 
> network bandwidth usage, separately on each interface (eth0,eth1). The 
> provided netstat rrd Network I/O graph measures packets/second but I 
> want bytes/second, which netstat0 (as defined in hobbitgraph.cfg) is 
> supposed to graph but it doesn't since the netstat -s command on my 
> server (RHEL4) doesn't return any byte statistics (only packets).
>
> I suppose I could build something like this (monitoring the 
> /proc/net/dev file) myself if I looked into setting up a custom rrd and 
> so forth, but I'm hoping to save some trouble by asking if someone here 
> has already done this :-D
>
> Help, anyone?
>
>
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