Or use MRTG. Free and written in Perl.
MJGEric Logeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello List
I wanted to get some basic bandwidth statistics across a WAN link. The approach I think I am going to take is the following:
Use a perl scipt to read in a bunch of files, determine the sizes, start a
On 5/24/05, $Bill Luebkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eric Logeson wrote:> Hello List>> I wanted to get some basic bandwidth statistics across a WAN link. The
> approach I think I am going to take is the following:> Use a perl scipt to read in a bunch of files, determine the sizes, start> a timer
> > If your intention is specifically to measure CIFS
> > performance, copying a
> > few files back and forth would be ok, but try and pick a
> quiet time on
> > the WAN...
> >
>
> I disagree. If the intent it to measure user experience, you
> probably want
> to poll at regular intervals (say
> If your intention is specifically to measure CIFS
> performance, copying a
> few files back and forth would be ok, but try and pick a quiet time on
> the WAN...
>
I disagree. If the intent it to measure user experience, you probably want
to poll at regular intervals (say every 5 minutes) whe
> Thanks for the response. I agree, this wouldn't be a true
> measure of bandwidth. I am however interested the user
> experience of moving files from the client machine to the
> server (all windows). I am doing this for a before and after
> comparison. The "after", is the installation of a
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Why not use SNMP from your routers?
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Hello List
Eric Logeson wrote:
> Hello List
>
> I wanted to get some basic bandwidth statistics across a WAN link. The
> approach I think I am going to take is the following:
> Use a perl scipt to read in a bunch of files, determine the sizes, start
> a timer (not sure how to do this yet), copy the files
> Hello List
> I wanted to get some basic bandwidth statistics across a WAN link.
> The approach I think I am going to take is the following:
> Use a perl scipt to read in a bunch of files, determine the sizes,
> start a timer (not sure how to do this yet), copy the > files across
> the link (winx
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Subject: Re: Measure bandwidth
Thanks Dirk
Some
Thanks Dirk
Some good tips there, I will have to add file deletion routine.
regarding point 5 below, would file::copy be shell based?
On 5/24/05, Dirk Bremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eric,I can only offer some general advice. I do something similar to getstatistics on FTP-transfers. Here are s
Oh yes, MRTG is great. I guess I am looking for download speed.
Thanks
On 5/24/05, Peter Eisengrein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you are looking for download speed, your approach will probably work. If you want bandwidth stats, use MRTG.
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
If you are looking for download speed, your approach will probably work.
If you want bandwidth stats, use MRTG.
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
It's already written. It's customizable. It's perl. It does an snmp get
(defaults to the interface usage but can read any snmp ob
Eric,
I can only offer some general advice. I do something similar to get
statistics on FTP-transfers. Here are some notes:
1. Since I have multiple events (2 per transfer, i.e. start and end
times) and multiple transfers per session, I define an array to hold the
various times, i.e. @Time.
2. F
I'm not sure that your method is very useful for two:
1) Your mileage will vary massively depending on the link
bandwidth/latency, and also how congested it is
2) There's an awful lot of overhead when using Windows SMB to move files
around, so you won't get a 'true' measure of bandwidth
You'd hav
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