HowTo: Install Ibmonitor Interface Bandwidth Monitor

If you wish to monitor bandwidth consumption of your host interfaces, here's another console-based linux bandwidth and network interface monitoring tool from linux.

ibmonitor is an interactive linux console application which shows bandwidth consumed and total data transferred on all interfaces.




ibmonitor main features are:

* Shows received, transmitted and total bandwidth of each interface
* Calculates and displays the combined value of all interfaces
* Displays total data transferred per interface in KB/MB/GB
* Values can be displayed in Kbits/sec(Kbps) and/or KBytes/sec(KBps)
* Can show maximum bandwidth consumed on each interface since start of utility
* Can show average bandwidth consumption on each interface since start of utility
* The output with all features (max, avg and display in Kbps and KBps) easily fits on a 80x24 console or xterm
* Can interactively change its output display format depending on key pressed by user.

Ibmonitor Installation

# yum -y install ibmonitor

Binary Launch

# ibmonitor
# ibmonitor --max --avg --data

Ibmonitor can be useful on a machine with multiple host and routes. Ibmonitor can simply show bandwidth and traffic usage from all interfaces of current host that makes monitoring of network interface so easy. More from their site.