Re: [SLUG] IP accounting from a PIX (or similar) using SNMP

[John McQuillen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:48, Tony Green wrote:
> Morning all,
> 
> I'm trying to get some accounting info out of our PIX [1] (hopefully
> using SNMP).  I'm currently using cricket [2] to do tracking on most of
> the hosts on our network, but it's (as far as I can tell) only useful
> for doing snapshot info.
> 
> I've got it reporting that at a certain time, the PIX's throughput on
> the external interface was XX k/sec, but that's not what I need to track
> our bandwidth charges.
> 
> I've asked around on #slug and most people are using ipacct on a linux
> based firewall, so I'm outta luck there.
> 
> Google didn't really throw up any interesting hits for me.
> 
> Anyone know of a linux based package which will allow me to do this?
> 
Try MRTG - http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html

Then look here for SNMP with the PIX -
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/pixsnmp.html

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

John...