Network & Bandwidth Monitoring Using Darkstat

Let check how can we monitor traffic using Darkstat in a machine. traffic grapher designed to run on a router, collect traffic statistics, export them to HTML pages.

$ sudo apt-get install darkstat

make some changes to Darkstat's configuration file, /etc/darkstat/init.cfg

 vim /etc/darkstat/init.cfg  ----- edit no to "yes"

# Turn this to yes when you have configured the options below. START_DARKSTAT=yes # Don't forget to read the man page. # You must set this option, else darkstat may not listen to # the interface you want INTERFACE="-i eth0" PORT="-p 666" BINDIP="-b 127.0.0.1" LOCAL="-l 192.168.1.0/24" FIP="-f 127.0.0.1" DNS="-n" #SPY="--spy eth0"

# /etc/init.d/darkstat start or # darkstat -i eth0   Access the interface using http://localhost:667/