[K12OSN] OT: Command to see network utilization

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 14:43, Roger wrote:
> On 10/4/05, Mike Lichtenwalner <mll at mtwp.net> wrote:
> > I have one server that mounts the /home directory on another server via
> > NFS. Both servers are connected to the same switch via 100Mb NICs. Is
> > there a command I can run on the boxes (one is RH, the other is SuSE
> > Enterprise) to see how much of that 100Mb is in use?
> 
> iptraf seems to work pretty good for watching traffic.  It shows
> real-time what an interface is using.
> You could always setup MRTG for graphing out the utilization of the
> interface.  MRTG would let you go back and look at what's going on.

Cacti http://www.cacti.net/ is a nice web interface for setting
up and viewing the graphs - much easier than mrtg itself.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com