need a bandwidth monitor

I'm looking for a bandwidth mointor to monitor the level
of bandwidth used by IP address.

I have less than 20 computers to monitor and all I need is
some way to provide historical data on the amount of
bandwidth being going to and from each computer.

Thanks in advance

Martin
Sun Aug 31 18:41:16 CDT 2003

is your network a windows domain ?
do you want to monitor 20 servers or workstations ?



"Barry" <barryb@webtransitions.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:01ff01c37012$64efb860$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm looking for a bandwidth mointor to monitor the level
> of bandwidth used by IP address.
>
> I have less than 20 computers to monitor and all I need is
> some way to provide historical data on the amount of
> bandwidth being going to and from each computer.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>

v-wdxu
Sun Aug 31 21:23:27 CDT 2003

Hi Barry,

Very good question!

Based on my experience on this issue, the performance monitor of windows
will help you a lot on this scenario. You can use one computer as the
monitor center. Then start the performance monitor in that box, select
"System Monitor" snap-in in the left tree panel. The monitor interface will
appear in the right frame. You can right-click the frame and select "Add
Counters". In the "Add counters" window, you should choose "select counters
from computers" then specify the computer's name in the text box. After
that, you can choose the performance object, counters and instances to
monitor the performance of that computer. If you want to monitor more than
one computer, you can only press "ctrl+W" or select "New window" from
Window menu. A new window will be added into your mmc. Then you can specify
another computer's name to the System monitor so that you can repeat the
steps above and monitor more computers from one box.

From my understanding to your scenario, I'd suggest you can choose the "Web
service" performance object and Bytes Total/sec. Then you can choose
_Total(for all web sites) or pick up one site from instance list.

Furthermore, the performance monitor can also help you store the
performance data into log or database for your analysis. You can also check
the performance monitor online documentation to obtain more information
about this tool.

Does this answer your question? Thank you for using Microsoft NewsGroup!

Wei-Dong Xu
Microsoft Product Support Services
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ITHost
Mon Sep 01 05:18:40 CDT 2003

"Barry" <barryb@webtransitions.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:01ff01c37012$64efb860$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm looking for a bandwidth mointor to monitor the level
> of bandwidth used by IP address.
>
> I have less than 20 computers to monitor and all I need is
> some way to provide historical data on the amount of
> bandwidth being going to and from each computer.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
you can use MRTG + Perl + SNMP and compute the bandwidth of you nic

--
ITHost (your host company)
Technical Manager
C. Paparelli (MCSE,MCSD,MCDBA)

http://www.ithost.ch

Barry
Mon Sep 01 10:52:48 CDT 2003

Our network is total MS and we will want to monitor=20
servers. We currently host a couple of our own web servers=20
and have been asked to host others but I don't have an=20
easy way to monitor bandwidth. I've looked at a number of=20
products that do this but they are costly or so complex=20
that I would need to spend two weeks learning how the=20
software works.

That would sort of defeat my goal of finding an easy way=20
to track bandwidth usage.


>-----Original Message-----
>is your network a windows domain ?
>do you want to monitor 20 servers or workstations ?
>
>
>
>"Barry" <barryb@webtransitions.com> a =E9crit dans le=20
message de
>news:01ff01c37012$64efb860$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> I'm looking for a bandwidth mointor to monitor the level
>> of bandwidth used by IP address.
>>
>> I have less than 20 computers to monitor and all I need=20
is
>> some way to provide historical data on the amount of
>> bandwidth being going to and from each computer.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>

Barry
Mon Sep 01 11:10:30 CDT 2003

Tried that... when I try to use counters on other
computers it says "unable to find machine.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Barry,
>
>Very good question!
>
>Based on my experience on this issue, the performance
monitor of windows
>will help you a lot on this scenario. You can use one
computer as the
>monitor center. Then start the performance monitor in
that box, select
>"System Monitor" snap-in in the left tree panel. The
monitor interface will
>appear in the right frame. You can right-click the frame
and select "Add
>Counters". In the "Add counters" window, you should
choose "select counters
>from computers" then specify the computer's name in the
text box. After
>that, you can choose the performance object, counters and
instances to
>monitor the performance of that computer. If you want to
monitor more than
>one computer, you can only press "ctrl+W" or select "New
window" from
>Window menu. A new window will be added into your mmc.
Then you can specify
>another computer's name to the System monitor so that you
can repeat the
>steps above and monitor more computers from one box.
>
>From my understanding to your scenario, I'd suggest you
can choose the "Web
>service" performance object and Bytes Total/sec. Then you
can choose
>_Total(for all web sites) or pick up one site from
instance list.
>
>Furthermore, the performance monitor can also help you
store the
>performance data into log or database for your analysis.
You can also check
>the performance monitor online documentation to obtain
more information
>about this tool.
>
>Does this answer your question? Thank you for using
Microsoft NewsGroup!
>
>Wei-Dong Xu
>Microsoft Product Support Services
>Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>.
>