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Re: [LUG] Monitoring bandwidth

 

jody salt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is there some standard way of monitoring the bandwidth
> that goes out of your server every month??

The standard way is using SNMP. Which can then enable
monitoring via an SNMP agent. e.g. mrtg, which by default
creates graphs of bandwidth against time.

> Basically I have an internet radio station
> (http://www.unsignedbandradio.com - powered by
> icecast) and several  other sites, obviously just
> looking at my Apache logs ain't going to be good
> enough as it doesn't know how much bandwidth the radio
> station has consumed??
> 
> Any ideas?

If you are interested in the bandwidth used by an application
then you might want to use some form of network accounting.

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