How to measure bandwidth usage

[GaryL]

I'd like to capture hourly snapshots of bandwidth usage across a couple of days through a 1602R setup as an ISDN router. Any suggestions?

 

[rburke]

WEll, one of the best bandwidth monitoring programs I've come acros is MRTG. You can get it at this link:

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

I use it to monitor my router and each port of my switch just at home. There are versions that can be setup for Windows or Unix(including Linux). That's what I'd recommend. As long as you follow the instructions to install it, then everything should work fine.

Let me know if this helps...

Burke

 

[GaryL]

Thanks, rburke, I'll check that out.
I'd like to see if there's something native to the Cisco router that I could add to its config.

 

[rburke]

There isn't. The only way you can really monitor bandwidth, would be if you did a "show interface" command and look at the 5 minute input/output rates. Which is prett much what MRTG does when it monitors anyways. Just thought I'd let you know.

Let me know if this helps.

Burke

 

[GaryL]

That's great, thanks!