I want to measure the whole internet traffic comming in or out of my eri/hme etc. in kb/s|mb/s. As I don't want to install any tools like net-snmp, mrtg, or other net traffic counter, I'm wondering if there is a basic unix command.
I appreciate any help
Cheers, Martin
Hi Martin,
This is definitely not my area of expertise, but I believe you can get some such
statistics with the command 'kstat' (at least on solaris). The problem
is to find out the right combination of options and the right method to
interpret the results.
For instance try things like:
kstat -c mib2
kstat -m ip
kstat -m hme
Hope this helps,
-- daniel
JMX, SNMP, Java, etc...
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jmxetc
Hi,
To complement my answer you may also want to try out
kstat -n [ ip | icmp | stcp | tcp | udp]
and/or
netstat -s
Hope this helps,
-- daniel
JMX, SNMP, Java, etc...
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jmxetc
PS: Note that Java DMK 5.1 (http://java.sun.com/products/jdmk/index.jsp)
has an example (called SolarisKstat)
which works on solaris - and will generate an MBean which will be
able to get at the data exported by a kstat module through JNI.
So in principle you could also use Java SE 5.0, JMX, and JDMK
to export your kstat data to a remote manager.
The example is a little raw, and I am not completely sure on which
solaris version it was last tested....
