[cod] Bandwidth measurement

[Rens]

As an alternative to MRTG / RRDtool you could also give Graphite a try.

http://graphite.wikidot.com/

It's fairly new, but it is really easy to send measurement data to it.

2009/1/8 tog at teamltk.com <tog at teamltk.com>:
> I have used both RRD and Bandwidthd to monitor traffic on servers..  RRD
> stores information in a special database and then only creats the graphics
> when requested.. (cgi mode) or can generate the graphics as part of a script
> run from cron..
>
> check out http://martybugs.net/linux/rrdtool/traffic.cgi
>
>
> Bandwidthd is very simple to install, also runs from cron, and creates
> graphs based on standard BPF filtering limits for all ip addresses it sees
> on an interface (another libpcap tool)
>
> http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/
>
> Personally I like the RRD approach because I can monitor anything from
> traffic on an ethernet port to the temperature of my routers or the amount
> of disk space used / available on my system...
>
>
>
> Punky wrote:
>>
>> Hi Walker,
>>  I have come across this before but never tried it:
>> http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/
>>  It actually does group bandwidth usage by process and not interface like
>> the others. If you launch all your gave servers through screen (do a google
>> for man screen) then I should imagine it will be easy to tell which server
>> is which process and then which process is using how much bandwidth. Worse
>> come to the worse, start the servers in a fixed order and then the
>> incrementing processor IDs will match with the server name
>>  HTH,
>>  --punky
>> www.nthwgaming.co.uk <http://www.nthwgaming.co.uk>
>>
>>    ----- Original Message -----
>>    *From:* Walker <mailto:walkertje at gmail.com>
>>    *To:* cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
>>    *Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:58 PM
>>    *Subject:* [cod] Bandwidth measurement
>>
>>    Hi all,
>>
>>    I am not an ISP, just someone with a dedicated server for our clan.
>>
>>    I would like to know if it is possible to measure the actual
>>    bandwidth being used by (for instance) 1 gameserver. (we are running
>>    more). I'm using CentOS 5. Are there any tools out there doing this?
>>
>>    Greetz,
>>    Walker
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