[Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?

[Gary Gatten]

Or MRTG or Nagios or OpenNMS, etc...  I use HP NNM - very cool but not
free.  There are dozens of SNMP apps for "monitoring" ports.  Also check
out enabling RMON on the switches - depending what groups your devices
support you can get pretty detailed info.  Inevitably though, once you
find out a port or link is busy you'll want to know who/what is using
all the bandwidth.  You'll need a decent implementation of RMON in your
devices or - nTop.

 

Gary

 

 

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From: ntop-bounces at unipi.it [mailto:ntop-bounces at unipi.it] On Behalf Of
Pete Sepulveda
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:58 PM
To: ntop at unipi.it
Subject: RE: [Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?

 

I would use PRTG and setup SNMP on the switches.  You can monitor the
bandwidth on each interface of the switch regardless of the MAC address.

 

http://www.paessler.com/prtg

 

 

 

From: ntop-bounces at unipi.it [mailto:ntop-bounces at unipi.it] On Behalf Of
Noam Dev
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:56 PM
To: ntop at unipi.it
Subject: Re: [Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?

 

The counters that I'm looking to see are mainly to monitor switches and
the like. I'm dealing with some hardware that modifies MAC addresses
(and set their own) but keep the original IP addresses. So, in order to
see how much bandwidth each section sends/receives, i need to only look
at MACs... (This is a question that i want to answer : how much
bandwidth goes thorugh each link) 

On 7/26/07, Gary Gatten <Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:

Describe "monitor"?  Unless you're in a really old or unique
environment, TCP/IP is your layer 3 / 4 protocol so it's highly
relevant.  Give me an example of what data you want or what problem
you're trying to resolve and I'll see if I can help.

 

Gary

 

 

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From: ntop-bounces at unipi.it [mailto: ntop-bounces at unipi.it
<mailto:ntop-bounces at unipi.it> ] On Behalf Of Noam Dev
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:18 PM
To: ntop at unipi.it
Subject: [Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?

 

Hello

I would like to deploy ntop in a certain environment in which i want to
monitor mainly switches and hubs. This means that for my purposes, IP
addresses are of no importance, while mac addresses are the one i want
to monitor. I have not been able to configure ntop to ignore IP traffic
when summarizing hosts, and to use just physical addresses. 

Is it possible to configure ntop to do this or am i looking at the wrong
solution for my needs? If the latter, any ideas for a more appropriate
solution?

Thanks!

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