Getting server Bandwidth

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Hello guys I have been crawling around perlmonks to find out how to get current server bandwidth via snmp, but the posts looked really scary to me i have installed Net::SNMP module, but i can't figure out from docs how can i simply display current server In speed in Kpbs or Mbps or what ever, and current Out speed Thank You very much

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Re: Getting server Bandwidth by dondelelcaro (Monk) on Sep 30, 2001 at 01:45 UTC
If you are trying to get speed information on remote servers, you need to be running an snmp daemon, probably from the net-snmp package.Then you basically pull `ifInOctects` and `ifOutOctets` from the remote server and compare it to the previous value. If you are doing it on a local server you basically pull and parse `/proc/net/netstat` and then compare it to a previous value. Somewhere around I have a copy of the code that generates the bandwidth meter on kernel.org, and I could dig it up if you are interested.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Getting server Bandwidth by dondelelcaro (Monk) on Sep 30, 2001 at 14:16 UTC
As per your request, the code that generates the bandwidth meter on kernel.org is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/web/bwbar/bwbar-1.2.tar.gz Yes, a long time ago I (and probably a couple of other people) harassed the web master of kernel.org (sorry, lost his name) into posting the code... hopefully I have been forgiven...	[reply]
Re: Getting server Bandwidth by echo (Pilgrim) on Sep 30, 2001 at 05:23 UTC
Have a look at MRTG, the Multi Router Traffic Grapher. Does nice graphs, and you can plug in your own perl script to monitor just about anything.	[reply]