desperately need a "network bandwidth monitoring" utility

[troyquigley]

i need to find a utility that monitors bandwidth used by each workstation.
so i can see which computers are hitting the server the hardest.
i really ONLY need it to check bandwidth usage for each workstation. i dont really
need anything fancy at all. the simpler the better.

and i want the utility to be installed on only 1 workstation and that being able to watch the bandwidth of all the OTHER workstations. i do not want to install the utility on EVERY workstation.

 

[nweaver]

do you have a managed switch?

MRTG ftw...although you could also install snmp on all the workstations, and run MRTG against them (if you don't have a managed switch). I don't know how to set up MRTG on windows, I always use linux (it's much easier)

 

[troyquigley]

Originally posted by: nweaver
do you have a managed switch?

MRTG ftw...although you could also install snmp on all the workstations, and run MRTG against them (if you don't have a managed switch). I don't know how to set up MRTG on windows, I always use linux (it's much easier)

i have a cisco catalyst 3500 xl switch. it is managed as far as i know. but i have not seen a way to see the bandwith usage for each workstation without going thru that hard to read log file. plug it only gave me total info.

 

[dphantom]

Originally posted by: nweaver
do you have a managed switch?

MRTG ftw...although you could also install snmp on all the workstations, and run MRTG against them (if you don't have a managed switch). I don't know how to set up MRTG on windows, I always use linux (it's much easier)

One can use OPENXTRA Commander to help with a Windows build of MRTG if needed. I've done both Linux and Windows flavors, prefer Windows as I am a Linux noob.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: troyquigley

Originally posted by: nweaver
do you have a managed switch?

MRTG ftw...although you could also install snmp on all the workstations, and run MRTG against them (if you don't have a managed switch). I don't know how to set up MRTG on windows, I always use linux (it's much easier)

i have a cisco catalyst 3500 xl switch. it is managed as far as i know. but i have not seen a way to see the bandwith usage for each workstation without going thru that hard to read log file. plug it only gave me total info.

figure out how to install MRTG on one machine (think it will require perl, like I said, don't know about windowingtuff with MRTG) and then set and SNMP RO string on the switch (conf t, snmp com public ro or something like that)

then MRTG goes and gathers interface metrics every 5 minutes, and makes pretty graphs.