How to monitor bandwidth in linux?

[Paulson]

I need a program that monitors bandwidth... I can't get mrtg to work (it installed but I don't know where I can find it 🙁)

Thanks...

 

[Bob151]

MRTG does fine. Does switches too!

Follow the directions provided by the author very closely, except when one of the required packages may have changed its install procedure. I'm not a linux person and I got it, just gota follow and trust the instructions. I think that when I installed 7.2 RH workstation mode, it didn't have gcc (thats the C compiler I think), so I had to install it manually.

I don't know how much help I can be as I'm basically a novice that knows how to screw it up after I get it working.

 

[Nothinman]

Read the docs that come with it, it's pretty straight forward. The most difficult part is setting up snmpd on the box to monitor.

 

[Paulson]

hell I can't even find it... and every time I try to install an RPM version it says it's already installed?

Where would it install it to?

I'm lost...

would there be any alternatives, or is this really the best one?

 

[n0cmonkey]

EDIT: Im installing it now.

 

[n0cmonkey]

mrtg was installed in /usr/local/bin for me. Do a "locate mrtg", a "which mrtg", or a "find / -name mrtg -print". One of those should find it for you (but check /usr/local/bin first 😉)

 

[manly]

man rpm

Apparently rpm does a lot of things that most Linux users don't know about. It's a far cry from apt, but I'd ditch my rpm-based distro if it didn't get the job done capably.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: manly
man rpm

Apparently rpm does a lot of things that most Linux users don't know about. It's a far cry from apt, but I'd ditch my rpm-based distro if it didn't get the job done capably.

There is a big difference between rpm not doing what it was supposed to do and knowing where to look (and what to look for) when its done.

 

[Nothinman]

mrtg was installed in /usr/local/bin for me. Do a "locate mrtg", a "which mrtg", or a "find / -name mrtg -print". One of those should find it for you (but check /usr/local/bin first 😉 )

If he used RPM it's most likely in /usr/bin.

The only real problem I had was setting up the config file, but I think it comes packaged with a program to create a base one for you. The RPM should have set mrtg to run via cron periodically, if not that'll need setup too.