Gathering Statistics About Network Traffic on Links in Oracle Solaris 11

The dlstat and flowstat commands are tools for monitoring and obtaining statistics on network traffic on datalinks and flows, respectively. These commands parallel the dladm and flowadm commands. The following table shows the parallelism between the pair of *adm commands and the pair of *stat commands and their respective functions: Command Function dladm command options User interface and tool for configuring and administering datalinks. flowadm command options User interface … Read more

Install and Configure Cacti Network Graphing Tool on RedHat / CentOS

Cacti is a network graphing tool similar to MRTG. How do I install and configure common options to collect SNMP data and various other data (such as system load, network link status, hard disk space, logged in users etc) into an RRD? From the official project site: Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it … Read more