[fw-wiz] Re: firewall-wizards digest, Vol 1 #674 - 9 msgs

From: Don Jones (don.jones@linuxmail.org)
Date: 09/11/02 

From: "Don Jones" <don.jones@linuxmail.org>
To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Wed Sep 11 21:46:01 2002

Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Statistics for Firewalls

>Joe's answer is by far the best one so far. MRTG is a >great tool and
>can be snagged from
>http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

I recomend trying RRDTool and an a frontend.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

RRD tool is fromt the same author as MRTG but is faster and more modular, it is only in charge of storing the time series data, this enables different frontends to be used which provide the graphing, snmp polling etc. There are quite a few good ones avalible:

Cricket:
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/

NMIS:
http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/

Cacti:
http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/

I have some experience with the 3 above and they are all good, cricket does no frills graphing, nmis provides more information than just the graphs and cacti provides "pretty" graphs.

There are numerous other frontends avalible:

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=rrdtool

Overall this solution is recomended for graphing router interfaces, switch ports and the like, but can be modified to graph any time series data avalible via snmp.

Regards

Don Jones 

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