check traffic without snmp?

[Julian Hein]

Hi, 

> is it possible to check current network traffic without using 
> snmp? tnx

Generally speaking yes, but it would be much more complicated, because you need a differerent plugin on every hardware / OS type (and you might need to write a few of them on your own):

- Windows: NSClient from PerfMon
- Linux: Grep ifconfig
- Routers: Telnet and expect scripts

and so on. If you think about this for security reasons, you could also try to tunnel snmp somehow or implement a management lan.

Julian

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