Server Gurus - Need your help!!!!
 

hi!

does anyone know a tool that runs on a FreeBSD server and logs all incoming and outgoing traffic? I don't mean MRTG, I need something a bit more sophisticated - and easier to understand. I would like to see usage by protocol (ftp, http) for example. and that sends out alerts when a certain threshold gets crossed.

thanks! :helpme

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Nagios with MRTG or Cacti are pretty much the way to go. Once you get past the learning curve they aren't as complicated as they seem. You can trigger alerts via email/sms/pager based on just about any event you can imagine.

Those are also helpful in that they can attempt to restart dead services before getting you out of bed.

There are probably commercial packages out there that will do what you need, but I'm an open source guy.

Not really helpful, but that's my :2 cents:

hmm, i can't see if it measures used bandwidth on first quick glance, but it looks interesting for sure - thx!

anything else?

hmm...mrtg comes to mind here...

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