Pulp Free: Status

I came across a few more ideas mostly by accident on how to track bandwidth from my router. One of the issues I’ve had with my home network is that while I can monitor devices (such as my PowerConnet 2716 & Linksys router) – I don’t get visibility into my virtual devices or devices being secondary routers (like in my Media Lounge). They all come lumped together. Wel – now I’m a little bit closer to seeing what’s going on by using IPTables on my Tomato-based Linksys. With a few more scripts added and some more templates – I’m now able to see Internet usage for any of the devices on my network.

This is probably the best I’m going to get for a while – as I’m not going to be able to monitor those devices on my LAN unless they all tie back to a port on my router.

I suppose I do need to start getting some of these scripts available at some time…

Enjoy!

_dave

After a false start, I was able to get status.pulpfree.org back on my home servers for now. I mostly spent the additional time since I wanted to get my PowerConnect and Tomato graphs back up and running. (Yes – I know, what’s the big deal with my graphing fascination!)

For Sam who posted a comment back in April – I updated my scripts for pulling stats from Tomato for use in Cacti as well as creating some templates to use the RRD files created in PowerConnect. I’ll be posting some of those hacks in a few days… I just need to clean up my graphs to all show bits/sec instead of my goofy “make per 5 minutes” that are messing up the actual presentation.
Enjoy!