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I am looking for a new command line tool to add into my Linux arsenal of trubleshooting.
I often monitor LAN/WAN traffic and sometimes, the big solutions come into play, like nagios and other client/server setups. Sometimes however, I can't go installing lots of packages on some systems so need to rely on those nifty cool command line tools I can quickly yum or apt-get install to achieve similar results. The majority is the systems are debian BTW.
My favorite tool is mtr to get some idea of the path to a server then maybe some other tool to see how bandwidth is doing. I often have to find problems over dedicated circuits for example. Using mtr and it's reporting function is great but it lacks long term current and historical details.
I need something I can start from the command line, leave it running, letting it spew out ongoing stats without taking up a ton of network resources or upsetting some IT people because I am sending huge amounts of ICMP or other traffic to them. Being able to change the ports instead of using ICMP related ports would be killer.
Maybe I could log into the Linux box to check the results or even have them emailed to me so I can take a look when I have a minute. Something which won't spew out gigs of data but would let me collect averages, store them into a file and keep on storing those averages so that maybe I could take a look at the overall results in a weeks time or something.
The usual things are what I am looking for such as packet times, latency, hop changes, even bandwidth if I could do it without getting anyone upset by using which ever ports I need.
I've been looking around for days and maybe I've missed some important results so I thought I might ask here and see if some of the guru's might have some thoughts on this.
If you do, it certainly is much appreciated and thanks for your time!
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I am looking for a new command line tool to add into my Linux arsenal of trubleshooting.
I often monitor LAN/WAN traffic and sometimes, the big solutions come into play, like nagios and other client/server setups. Sometimes however, I can't go installing lots of packages on some systems so need to rely on those nifty cool command line tools I can quickly yum or apt-get install to achieve similar results. The majority is the systems are debian BTW.
My favorite tool is mtr to get some idea of the path to a server then maybe some other tool to see how bandwidth is doing. I often have to find problems over dedicated circuits for example. Using mtr and it's reporting function is great but it lacks long term current and historical details.
I need something I can start from the command line, leave it running, letting it spew out ongoing stats without taking up a ton of network resources or upsetting some IT people because I am sending huge amounts of ICMP or other traffic to them. Being able to change the ports instead of using ICMP related ports would be killer.
Maybe I could log into the Linux box to check the results or even have them emailed to me so I can take a look when I have a minute. Something which won't spew out gigs of data but would let me collect averages, store them into a file and keep on storing those averages so that maybe I could take a look at the overall results in a weeks time or something.
The usual things are what I am looking for such as packet times, latency, hop changes, even bandwidth if I could do it without getting anyone upset by using which ever ports I need.
I've been looking around for days and maybe I've missed some important results so I thought I might ask here and see if some of the guru's might have some thoughts on this.
If you do, it certainly is much appreciated and thanks for your time!
Continue reading...
