Well snmp is the obvious choice, the number of applications supporting this are quite many...too many....if you just have a small setup with your desktop try the free prtg, or mrtg (depending on your inclination prtg is a lesser hustle)....If you want to go to complex scenarios and have a bit of fun doing it....then you could test zabbix,mrtg,cacti,open-nms etc....sort of overkill for a single router... If you like messing around with scripts, google for expect and awk maybe perl....I guess what everyone is saying is give us details of your setup, how much pain you want to endure and we'll point you in the right direction:-).....steve likes pain as you can see:-)))) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, techi <myskunkworks@gmail.com> wrote:
George,
You are right. The Cisco router is configure for SNMP and the router sends SMIBs packets to the Cisco Works QPM server. It works similar to Cacti. It can generate reports, can define QoS policy and so on.
Cheers.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM, George Njoroge <themburu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guys, Do u really mean you onstall those apps on the cisco device, i presume you install it on a cpmputer then you have to configure SNMP on the cisco routers? Regards Themburu On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:23 AM, techi <myskunkworks@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
You can use Cisco Works to monitor traffic through a Cisco router. In particular, you can use the QoS Policy Manager (QPM) to monitor and manage traffic (to the extend of protocols, UDP,and TCP ports)
cheers.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM, lydiah ndirangu <lyndirangu22@gmail.com> wrote:
is there any way of checking the exact traffic passing through a cisco router.
Yes; do you want to see the total traffic passing through, or a breakdown of traffic by protocol? For the first one, check out mrtg and it's derivatives - purely SNMP, so it's supported by your router for sure; for the second, check out NetFlow - if your router supports it.
If you could give some few details about your setup (router model/IOS version, whether you have a box that you can use for monitoring, and whether that box runs *nix or Windows) you'll get a heap of possible solution from the skunks.
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