Welcome to my video
In the previous video I did a check on the port status of a switch device
In this video I will be monitoring the bandwidth of the switch's ports
To do this, your computer needs perl and mrtg
First, I downloaded and installed ActiveState Perl
The download link you will find in the description of this video
During the installation process you need to remember where perl is installed so that you can use it again later
Next, download and configure mrtg , multi router traffic grapher
The download link you will find in the description of this video
After downloading, unzip it and note the location you unzipped for use in the next step
Install Perl on the same Windows machine
You might want to make sure that the Perl binary directory is listed in your system path
You can manually check this by going to Environment
To see if everything is installed properly you can open a Command prompt and type as above
The first thing we do in setting up MRTG is making a default config file
Make sure that the SNMP feature is enabled on your network device
Next, enter the correct IP address of the switch device
This creates an initial MRTG config file for you
Note that in this file all interfaces of your network device will be stored by number
You make modifications to the configuration file contents as above
You add 2 lines as above
Next, you execute the above command to monitor the traffic of the switch's ports
And here are the graphs of the results by port
Next you create the link between the switch port and the graph
In addition, you add comments for the switch ports
Our next thing is to wait for the results
And here are the results after 8 hours of waiting
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