Pix 520 - Can it log bandwidth usage?

Pix 520 - Can it log bandwidth usage?

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Pix 520 - Can it log bandwidth usage? yoyo 01-05-2006
Posted by yoyo on January 5, 2006, 10:44 am
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Hi, I have a PIX 520 in a rack with 8 servers behind it. It's a very
simple setup as I have little knowledge of Cisco Pix systems.
All the servers behind the firewall are working fine with various web
servers etc running and all accessible from the outside world.
What I want to do though is see how much bandwidth each server is using.
Can this be done by monitoring the outside interface of the Pix 520 or
will it only log the IP's and ports as opposed to the actual volume of
data per IP?


Any help would be great.
thanks.


Posted by Walter Roberson on January 5, 2006, 1:55 pm
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>Hi, I have a PIX 520 in a rack with 8 servers behind it. It's a very
>simple setup as I have little knowledge of Cisco Pix systems.
>All the servers behind the firewall are working fine with various web
>servers etc running and all accessible from the outside world.
>What I want to do though is see how much bandwidth each server is using.
>Can this be done by monitoring the outside interface of the Pix 520 or
>will it only log the IP's and ports as opposed to the actual volume of
>data per IP?

PIX 5.x and 6.x only allow SNMP monitoring of total traffic per
interface, with no SNMP ability to monitor traffic per IP.

The message logs for PIX 5.x and PIX 6.x do not provide any summary
of traffic: only volume counts per TCP or UDP connection (other kinds
of traffic are not counted.)

You might wish to extend the program that I posted in
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.dcom.sys.cisco/browse_thread/thread/972a527ba458f06/37ddb0b6234c1e48#37ddb0b6234c1e48

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