check traffic without snmp?

[icedtea]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> icedtea wrote:
>
>> is it possible to check current network traffic without using snmp? tnx
>>
>
> Possible, yes, but very troublesome. You'd have to login via 
> telnet/ssh and fetch the proper values that way. Not very secure, and 
> definitely custom.
>
actually, i prefer ssh. Im having some troubles with snmp. I cannot seem 
too enable snmp service on my remote servers.... Is there a way to let 
say use check_by_ssh then issue the independent perl script ibmonitor 
"http://ibmonitor.sourceforge.net/ ?




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