Thanks to all who responded.

I have downloaded and run Beechglen's free analysis tool, and will look into
using SNMP as Mark suggested.

-Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:53 PM
> To: Dave Darnell
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Monitor Network Activity
>
>
> If it just overall traffic load you want to measure, you can
> enable SNMP on
> your e3000 and then use a tool such as MRTG
> (http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/) to collect
> the data and
> generate traffic graphs.
>
> MRTG is a combination of Perl and C.  IIRC it ran on MPE
> without requiring any
> changes the last time I checked.  Of course you can run it on
> any machine to
> monitor the SNMP stats of any other machine.  I run it under
> Linux to monitor
> bixby.org and jazz traffic.
>
> - Mark B.
>
> Dave Darnell wrote:
> >
> > Hello List,
> >
> > What can I do on the 3000 to monitor the amount of network
> activity in
> > near-real time?
> >
> > I am looking at a client/server process where both sides
> were developed
> > in-house.  We have assessed al other performance criteria
> except the traffic
> > between the client and the server.
> >
> > Short of external devices like protocol analyzers, what can
> I run on the 3K
> > to get an idea of the relative impact to networking.
> >
> > Are there specific processes I can monitor with Glance/iX to get the
> > relative level of activity?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
>
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