monitor 515e pix firewall traffic bandwidth

Oct 06, 2005 5 Replies
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hi;



how can i monitor the internet useage (bandwidth) through out of my pix firewall , i installed the kiwi syslog server but it dose not provid any information about bondwidth useage.



thanx



Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

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In article , asj wrote: :how can i monitor the internet useage (bandwidth) through out of my pix :firewall , i installed the kiwi syslog server but it dose not provid :any information about bondwidth useage.

If what you are looking for is just "bandwidth", then PDM/SDM will display that on a nice graph, and MRTG can gather the information and present it on different time-scales.

If you are trying to track traffic volume per machine, then in PIX 6.x you cannot retrieve that data via SNMP (or PDM). For a simple perl script that will help on this, see

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