Hi Lydiah,

If u just want to monitor one Cisco router, u can use QoS on the interface. Just configure NBAR to recognize all applications coming in the interface, classify the traffic using protocols then use the sho command to see the no. of packects mapped to a particular class. You can even map URLs and monitor them using the 'match protocol http url '*123.com*" command'.

cheers.


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:01 PM, 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,
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