On 9/30/09, lydiah ndirangu <lyndirangu22@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks guys for your response. i am looking into your ideas

On 9/30/09, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> BR,
>>>>> S
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