Bandwidth Monitor

[Freeze]

I'm looking for a tool to monitor the bandwidth utilization of a server. I'm looking for something that will give me an average network BW usage while running IO tests. Thanks!

 

[p0lar]

SNMP is considered the best way. If you're using Windows 2000 Pro/Server or any flavour of linux/unix, you can use MRTG (Tobias Oetiker (www.mrtg.org)) and SNMP. For more power and flexibility, choose an independent SNMP package that gathers results on its own (NET-SNMP aka UCD-SNMP) and then dump the results into RRDTOOL (also by Tobias Oetiker (www.rrdtool.com)). The learning curve of RRDTOOL compared to MRTG is quite steep, however.

You'll most likely need perl (www.perl.org or activeperl for windows).

For an idea of how it works with rrdtool + ucd-snmp, visit this site I use at home.

 

[ToxicWaste]

Running Windows 2000 Server, or what OS?

Why not just run W2K's Performance monitor?

 

[Freeze]

I'm using W2K. I didn't know that the Windows performance monitor covered network stuff. I'll check it out when I get back to work Monday.

I'm looking for something quick and easy to use. I'm only going to be using it for about a week, once I finish off my tests... Thanks.