Re: Pix 520 - Can it log bandwidth usage?


"Walter Roberson" <roberson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <z5hxf.8996$43.8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
> Somebody. <somebody.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Doesn't the pix do snmp metrics on it's ports?
>
> The PIX 520 with the newest software available for that model,
> is able to do only interface-level metrics. The original poster
> asked for per-server (i.e., per-IP) metrics.
>
>
>>As Scott mentions, the switch it's connected to probably does.
>
> The switch the PIX 520 is connected to probably does NOT do per-IP
> SNMP metrics. For example, if you investigate the IP accounting
> metrics available on Cisco switches, you will find that the only
> Cisco switches that support such things are the "Content Switch"
> (CSS) series, and the SS7 telephony IOS images for a few major switches.
> For other Cisco devices/images, IP accounting information is available
> via Netflow, which does *not* support queries or reporting via SNMP.
> And I already covered Netflow earlier.

Didn't notice you needed per-ip accounting. A traffic logging package is
your only option then. Something like NetIQ taking all the traffic logs in
syslog format would give you all the information you could ever want on a
per-ip basis.

-Russ.


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