I'm not sure what you mean by 'traffic,' so I'll assume total bytes. If not, the technique can be applied to other measurements.
The output from netstat is a total count since 'the beginning of time' which is probably the last boot. The man page I just checked didn't give any indication so that's my assumption.
Regardless, in order to know what your traffic is, you have to capture a baseline value, and then at sometime in the future, capture a second value with the difference being the traffic over that period of time.
A small script like this can present output counts by the minute:
One note: Bash is not able to handle the syntax 'command | read x y' so this isn't a portable script. If you want to use this under bash you'll need to change each get_stats statement to these three:
there are commands to monitor the memory, paging, io... how about network traffic. i mean commands to see whether the network traffic (LAN) is congested? the closest i got is netstat
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Got a strange one here, well not so much strange, different :-)
I need to work out if a server is particulary chatty, whether its talking / communicating heavily to a particular server, as Im planning to physically move the server to a different server, over a link. Hence the... (6 Replies)
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I just wanted to know if on solaris ,below two commands need to be run separately unlike AIX where "/usr/bin/netstat -an -f inet " gives tcp as well as udp info.
/usr/bin/netstat -an -f inet -P tcp
/usr/bin/netstat -an -f inet -P udp
Also is there any way i can make these two... (10 Replies)
I Colleagues,
Somebody can say me how to monitoring traffic in the network. also I am interested in monitoring memory. if somebody to know a guide with command advanced in unix welcome for me.
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If I would like to know what connection , data , traffic in a network port ( eth0 ) , what can I do ?
ps. because I always found the network is very slow , so I would like what the network port is doing .
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I am resilience testing an application that is spread across multiple servers.
One thing I will need to do soon is throttle the network traffic for specific interfaces within the test cluster. Specifically, maybe make a connection take twice or three times as long to respond....
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Help required for creating a unix shell script using netstat command for retrieving total traffic in Kbytes with the source and destination address. (4 Replies)
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