GenerationIP

Web Site : http://www.pmacct.net/

Type : Bandwidth METER & Bandwith Analyzer
Operating System : Red Hat Linux 7.x/8.x/9.x
Fedora Core 1/2/3
Slackware Linux 8.x/9.x
Gentoo Linux 1.4.x/1.6.x & Gentoo AMD64
SuSE Linux 9.x
Debian 3.x
Solaris 8/9/10 x86/sparc
FreeBSD 4.x/5.x x86
LEAF Bering-uClibc
Tru64 5.x

Write by : Fabien FAYE

IP accounting is key activity underlying popular ISP/IXP network operations like billing, graphing network resources usage, live or historical traffic trends analysis, management of network thresholds and SLA monitoring. Often SNMP counters do not help because of their coarse granularity; traffic mirroring, NetFlow and sFlow break this barrier by offering data at a finer granularity, ie. intercepting logical entities of greater interest such as Autonomous Systems, departmental or customer networks or just specific traffic flows. But actual high-speed large-scale networks are able to produce, in very short times, high amounts of data that become quickly difficult to be processed. In this context, traffic aggregation and advanced filtering and sampling capabilities become key requirements.

pmacct is a small set of passive network monitoring tools to measure, account, classify, aggregate and export IPv4 and IPv6 traffic; its main features are:

Web Site : http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

Type : Graph Generator
Operating System : LINUX,FREEBSD,UNIX,WINDOWS

Write by : Fabien FAYE

If you know MRTG, you can think RRDtool is a clone of MRTGs graphing and logging features but RRDTOOL is more faster and more flexible than MRTG.

RRD is the Acronym for Round Robin Database. RRD is a system to store and display time-series data (network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, mysql queries,dns queries). You use it directly via a command line or in MRTG system.

This howto is base on the RRDTOOL documentation for RRDTOOL 1.0