LARTC - Jul 2002 - Is it possible to measure / graph the bandwidth used for individual IP sessions to an FTP server?

My office has an FTP server which is used by various "satellite sites"
to
upload files to us.

As part of the management of my local network & auditing network resources,
I want to try & measure (and hopefully) graph [like MRTG] the bandwidth used
by individual FTP upload connections (assuming each file being uploaded only
uses one connection).

I am wondering whether it''s possible to do this using Linux??

Regs
Rupert Heesom
Asst Distribution Engineer
Adventist World Radio

Hi.

Hm. accounting each ftp-session separately sounds impossible (for me :),
but with ipac (-ng) @sourceforge.net it''s possible to feed mrtg.So you
can at least measure and graph the TOTAL ammount of (ftp-)traffic
to/from your ftp-server.
to measure and graph each ftp-session seperately u can try to find a tool
which evaluates /var/log/xferlog, assuming your ftp-server writes such a
log-file (e.g. with modlogan)
Greetings

Tobias
> My office has an FTP server which is used by various "satellite
sites"
> to upload files to us.
>
> As part of the management of my local network & auditing network
> resources, I want to try & measure (and hopefully) graph [like MRTG]
> the bandwidth used by individual FTP upload connections (assuming each
> file being uploaded only uses one connection).
>
> I am wondering whether it''s possible to do this using Linux??
>
> Regs
> Rupert Heesom
> Asst Distribution Engineer
> Adventist World Radio