Bandwidth usage

[tical00]

Hi all,
This might sound like a noob question but I was wondering what is the command to monitoring bandwidth usage? I have this is server at work that keeps going down every week but its b/c they saturate their bandwidth. What other command can I run to monitor server resources. thanks.

 

[bfitzmai]

Tica,
Here is a link with information that may help you. If this bandwitdh problem continues, you may want to invest in a network monitoring application.

http://www.brendangregg.com/Perf/network.html

 

[elgrandeperro]

I like to use orca, which gives both a nice graphical output that characterizes the system performance over time.

 

[SamBones]

SunFreeware (

http://www.sunfreeware.com)

has a utility called iftop that should give you what you want. Here's the description...

iftop does for network usage what top does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts