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Re: How to query how many bytes the ethernet card receives and sends on HP-UX?

 
Wang Fenglong
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How to query how many bytes the ethernet card receives and sends on HP-UX?

Hi admins, please help me out with some command or method which i can retrieve how many bytes the ethernet card have received and sent in HP-UX, "netstat -in" only gives me the number in packets, but i need the number in bytes, is there any command can be used in a shell to retrieve these statistic values directly? such as "entstat" in AIX, the "/proc/net/dev" in Linux.

Thank u very much for any help, it is quite urgent.
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Horia Chirculescu
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Re: How to query how many bytes the ethernet card receives and sends on HP-UX?

You could use Netperf:

http://www.netperf.org

You can get compiled binaries from porting archive:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/netperf-1.7.1/

Horia.
Best regards from Romania,
Horia.
Kapil Jha
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Re: How to query how many bytes the ethernet card receives and sends on HP-UX?

I do not think you can get the value from UNIX end, because packets are not of same length.

MAximum bytes you can get like
Ipkts (from netstat -in)*MTU=bytes

MTU is maximum transmission unit.

to get the actual value you would need third party tools.

BR,
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Horia Chirculescu
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Re: How to query how many bytes the ethernet card receives and sends on HP-UX?

Regarding Munin:

http://munin-monitoring.org/

It seems that the plugin for HP-UX also uses netstat -in as the source of the data.

See

http://munin-monitoring.org/browser/trunk/node/node.d.hp-ux/netstat_rate_tcp_.in?rev=1404

Horia.
Best regards from Romania,
Horia.
Matti_Kurkela
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Re: How to query how many bytes the ethernet card receives and sends on HP-UX?

"lanadmin -g " outputs "Inbound Octets" and "Outbond Octets" which are the amounts of data transferred in bytes (octet = byte).

The is the number of the LAN interface, which can be determined from the "lanscan" output. Usually, for the interface lanN, the equivalent PPA is simply N.

Example:
To get the traffic statistics of lan1:

# lanadmin -g 1

LAN INTERFACE STATUS DISPLAY
Wed, Mar 24,2010 15:01:27

PPA Number = 1
Description = lan1 HP PCI-X 1000Base-T Release B.11.31.0709.
01
Type (value) = ethernet-csmacd(6)
MTU Size = 1500
Speed = 1000000000
Station Address = 0x110a42adb6
Administration Status (value) = up(1)
Operation Status (value) = up(1)
Last Change = 267
Inbound Octets = 2940170422
Inbound Unicast Packets = 2830375214
Inbound Non-Unicast Packets = 22790734
Inbound Discards = 0
Inbound Errors = 0
Inbound Unknown Protocols = 6515494
Outbound Octets = 2989997330
Outbound Unicast Packets = 85267744
Outbound Non-Unicast Packets = 35162
Outbound Discards = 0
Outbound Errors = 0
Outbound Queue Length = 1
Specific = 655367

Ethernet-like Statistics Group

Index = 2
Alignment Errors = 0
FCS Errors = 0
Single Collision Frames = 0
Multiple Collision Frames = 0
Deferred Transmissions = 0
Late Collisions = 0
Excessive Collisions = 0
Internal MAC Transmit Errors = 0
Carrier Sense Errors = 0
Frames Too Long = 0
Internal MAC Receive Errors = 0

In HP-UX 11.31 (and above), you should use nwmgr instead. Example for lan1:

nwmgr --st mib -c lan1
*** lan1 64 bit MIB statistics:
Interface Name = lan1
PPA Number = 1
Description = lan1 HP PCI-X 1000Base-T Release B.11.31.0709.01
Interface Type = 1000Base-T
MTU Size = 1500
Speed = 1 Gbps
Station Address = 0x00110A42ADB6
Administration Status = UP
Operation Status = UP
Last Change = Sat Oct 31 22:56:05 2009
Inbound Octets = 204804034642
Inbound Unicast Packets = 2830377326
Inbound Multicast Packets = 0
Inbound Broadcast Packets = 22792187
Inbound Discards = 0
Inbound Errors = 0
Inbound Unknown Protocols = 6515719
Outbound Octets = 11580353438
Outbound Unicast Packets = 85270743
Outbound Multicast Packets = 0
Outbound Broadcast Packets = 35162
Outbound Discards = 0
Outbound Errors = 0
Counter Discontinuity Time = Sat Oct 31 22:56:04 2009
Physical Promiscuous Mode = FALSE
Physical Connector Present = TRUE
Interface Alias =
Link Up/Down Trap Enable = Enabled

MK
MK
rick jones
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Re: How to query how many bytes the ethernet card receives and sends on HP-UX?

Lanadmin, as previously mentioned, is the way to go. Also, glance has a way to do the same thing.

As for netperf, it is a generator of load, not simply a reporting tool, so it would not be indicated. And, that version listed is positively ancient. netperf is up to version 2.4.5 from netperf.org.
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