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ksool
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 Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject: Command line connection monitor |
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I'm trying to setup a little addon to conky that will show some stats about a given connection, i.e up rate, down rate, up total, down total.
Is there any command like program that can do this? Put in maybe the hosts and ports, and it gives out in simple text any of these stats?
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needles
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ifconfig will do it for the local host.
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needles@metroid ~ $ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3F:56:DC:F4
inet addr:10.10.10.103 Bcast:10.10.0.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1692008 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:941987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:694220118 (662.0 Mb) TX bytes:910833569 (868.6 Mb)
Interrupt:16
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So that gives you totals. As for rate information, I don't know if a command line tool that will monitor that sort of thing. It would be kind of annoying, as you would need to keep a terminal open with just the information anyway.
If you want something to give you this kind of information that you can watch in real time, look for some sort of GUI system monitoring applicaiton, like gkrellem, or any of the system monitor utils that come with desktop envirnments. (I use WindowMaker, and run wmnet for just such a purpose.)
As for stuff running on other hosts, and in particular, having specific services running on particular ports, you need a much more sophisticated solution for that. I would look at something like Hobbit.
http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/
Honestly, I think you really need to spend some time thinking about what your requirements really are, and I'm sure there's something out there than can fit the bill. |
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Janne Pikkarainen
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iptraf, bwmon, ntop, iptables with some voodoo.
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Aeros
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Yea, as I mentioned in my other post, I'm also looking for something like this. The difference is, I want mine to echo out a snapshot of the total up/downstreams per day, which I can then save and mail to admins.
You mentioned iptables twice now - how? I've studied iptables syntax again and can't figure out how to actually get it to output traffic use per day. |
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Aeros
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By the way, to answer your question:
vnstat is a very nice util for bandwidth monitoring, per day/week/month etc.
Also,
http://martybugs.net/linux/ipac.cgi
Also seems quite powerful. |
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