network graph per user/ip address

[felipebare]

Hi all,

I need to generate network utilization graphs per Ip address/User.

Does Zabbix support this kind of graph?

Thanks a lot.
Felipe.

[nelsonab]

Zabbix can quite easilly generate graphs for this kind of data, however the challenge is getting that data into Zabbix. This is where the easy answer of "No" is the best first choice.

So, how do we get this data in? There are many ways, but I'll go with the one on the top of my head. We could create a counter in iptables which triggers based on source/destination IP. Then we would create a shell script which would run on the client and check this counter and put it into our Zabbix item/key we have created.

The downside, it's not dynamic. If you want to monitor another host you must add it manually to Zabbix and you will need to create a new capture rule for it's packets. Also you cannot drill down for a specific destination or port, you get only what you chose to capture at the start.

Hope this helps.