[BlueOnyx:10119] Re: Bandwidth

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Richard Morgan wrote:
> Nice find for the network monitor Bob; at least now I have a way to get a 
> rough idea on the bandwidth the server is using.
> 
> I've installed it on our test/development box, but not our production server 
> which is where it would be useful.  Does anyone know if this is secure and 
> if opening port 667 is a bad idea?

Hi Richard
Why not simply monitor this information from your Layer 2 switch device? 
  We provide all of our colocation customers with stats based directly 
off their uplink port(s).  It's not difficult using rrdtool / cacti / 
mrtg or similar....

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