Bandwith monitoring on win2k... MRTG-esque

[Homerboy]

I have a small home LAN set up usign normal Windows ICS off a Win2k server and win98SE workstations.

I am looking for a program to run on the win2k server box to monitor bandwith usage (much like MRTG would do on routers)

ANy input... anyone? I've looked high and low and found NOTHING.

 

[Xanathar]

maybe enable snmp on the 2k box and use mrtg?

 

[Homerboy]

ah ha!
stupid is as stupid does...
now to figure out MRTG...

 

[Homerboy]

http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/nt-guide.html

bada-bing... for NT but should work fine for win2k with a few alterations....

 

[Homerboy]

wait wait wait....

I do NOT have a router at all.. the question is still then HOW do you get MRTG to "point" to the windows ICS and monitor THAT? the link i posted above is jsut how to get MRTG to run on NT... not to monitor NT...

ugh

I have the win2k box connected directly to my SDSL modem and the win2k box does the ICS for the rest of the LAN...

help!!!... now I'm lost lost.

 

[Xanathar]

the ip of the &quot;router&quot; would be your 2k box with snmp enabled, then point to the ethernet adapters for inbound/putbound >theretical<

 

[iceliquid]

Excuse my ignorance, but could someone please explain to me what MTRG is? Thanks.

IceLiquid

 

[Ladi]

To quote from http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/98/jan/bwm47.html

Then there's Multi-Router Traffic Grapher (http://eestaff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html) by Tobias Oetiker and Dave Rand. MRTG is a tool to monitor the traffic load across network links. It's based on a Perl 5 script that uses SNMP to read the router traffic counters and a C program that logs the data and creates graphs of the traffic on the network. MRTG then generates HTML pages which contain GIFs that provide snapshots of network traffic. With a little modification, it can be used to generate graphical reports from any SNMP MIB, so a little time invested in hacking the MRTG source will provide you with a general-purpose monitoring tool. It's licensed per GNU, so you're free to turn any such hack into a commercial tool-so long as you agree to make your source code available to anyone who wants it.

~Ladi