.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH monitorDevice 8 "August 30, 2002" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME monitorDevice \- archive information about working net interfaces in CSV file .SH SYNOPSIS .B monitorDevice .SH DESCRIPTION monitorDevice is a very simple perl script which read /proc/uptime and /proc/net/dev and append information about amount of transfered data throught TCP/IP interfaces to CSV files located in /usr/local/share/monitor. Theses files can then be queried with .BR queryDevice (8) to know how much datas where transfered thought the interfaces at which date, period or in average. The whole process was designed so that one can survey the bandwidth used by a server. For the system to be effective, you must set-up your server so that monitorDevice is launched in a cron and/or preferably before each time the interface is downed (so that we do not lose any bit of datagram) and/or before to run .IR queryDevice . .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. .SH SEE ALSO .BR queryDevice (8). .BR .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by PimenTech staff .