[NTLUG:Discuss] bandwidth metering and snmp

[Jay Urish]

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At 10:11 PM 7/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>hi y'all,
>   I've got a client in need of a bandwidth monitoring and alert tool....
>they're running an IIS server unfortunately and they fear change.
>I tolf them I could plop a Linux machine infront of the IIS server
>to monitor client bandwidth usage and I could whip up a script in perl to
>watch for arbitrary threasholds and notify them via email/pager whenever
>those threasholds are met... cake.  They want to identify heavy uage domains
>and
>clients.  I can write the script and set the box up but there's just one
>problem....
>I've never used snmp or any other bandwidth meter-capable solution for that
>matter!
>  Infact I'm not sure if snmp can do what I want.
>
>So to follow up, I've been looking around for Linux oriented snmp
>documentation.
>I haven't found much yet other then cpan.org module docs which will come in
>handy if, indeed,  snmp is the solution.  Have any of you taken on and
>completed a task like this
>using snmp or some other solution?  I could probably figure this one out on
>my own but it never hurts to get input from others.
>
>furthermore,  the metering and scripting/monitoring will be done on the same
>box.
>
>thanks,
>    Jeremy
>
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