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Name: router-stats - Summarizes usage of Cisco routers

Version: 2.20 beta

Author(s): Iain Lea <iain@ecrc.de>

           Iain Lea
           Kreigenbrunnerstr 28
           91056 Erlangen
           Germany

Ftp source: ftp.sbs.de:/pub/networking/router-stats

Description:

    I needed to know how much data was pumping through our Internet
    routers so that I could convince management that we needed to
    upgrade our connection. To that end I developed a set of scripts
    written in Perl5 that gather the relevant statistics and create
    bargraphs of the collected data. Mangement now gets presented
    with snazzy bargraphs and I get a faster connection         
    without the associated hassles :).  

    The script get-router-stats is periodically run from cron and
    accesses the specified router(s) and executes a show interface
    command, parses the input and output rates (and thruput), writes
    them to a file and exits. Support for SNMP is also included. New
    methods can easily be added. The following access methods are
    supported: Telnet-Cisco, Telnet-Socks-Cisco, Snmp-Cisco and
    Snmp-Standard.      

    The script gen-router-stats is run as needed from cron to
    generate bargraphs of the gathered statistics. Daily, weekly by
    hour, weekly by day and monthly statistics are generated. Note:
    by default only daily bargraphs are generated.      

    HTML pages are generated that link the different bargraphs to one
    another by showing thumbnail images of the full size graphs.        

    The script cron-router-stats is an harness that drives the
    gen-router-stats script with appropiate options read from the
    router-stats.info file for each router.     

    -- Quoted from the 2.20 README file by Iain Lea

Advertised architectures:

    Not stated, but should run most anywhere

Prerequisites: 

    You'll need the following software *installed* to use these scripts:
    
    perl5    ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/tools/perl/perl/perl5.001m.tar.gz
    gnuplot  ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/gnu/gnuplot-3.5.tar.gz
    netpbm   ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/graphics/unix/netpbm/netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz
    giftool  ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/www/tools/giftool/giftool.tar.gz
    cmu-snmp ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/snmp-dist                 [SNMP only]
    cmu-snmp ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/linux-cmu-snmp  [SNMP only]