Is there a realtime network transfer rate tool for hpux 10.20?

[Bert Kamps]

I want to do some network transfer tests on nt and unix. On nt i'm using DUmeter, which is pretty accurate.
But what should i use on hpux? Is there some kind of dumeter for hpux?

Thnx,

Bert

[Volker Borowski]

Hi,
did you check out the trial version of glance ?

Volker

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

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If you are looking for a comprehensive tool, one choice would be NetMetrix/UX Internetwork monitoring and analysis software , from Agilent. But it costs $$.

For shareware, i think BigBrother has network transfer monitoring option in it.
Check this download site for other shareware
tools: (there are lots of them)
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html#nmp

-raj

[Bert Kamps]

I heard about glance, is it in the support tools package from hp?
Because i tried to search in on hp website, but didn't find it...

[Roger Baptiste · Accepted solution]

Glance should be present in one of the application CD's which comes with the O/S CD.
Depending on the revision of CD you have, it could be in any of the Four CD's. (normally 2).
Note that, you will get two month free trial after which License needs to be purchased to use it.

-raj

[Mike Hassell]

Bert,

I would say take a look into 'tcpdump' and 'tcptrace' as the combination of these two may be just what you're looking for. Tcpdump will "sniff" realtime for you and will either send the data to stdout, or to a binary file. When using tcpdump to send it's output to a binary file, 'tcptrace' comes to the resuce of taking all this data and summarizing it for you with ascii text output. While glance will provide you with a solid graphical output of what's going on, the combination of 'tcpdump' and 'tcptrace' will provide detailed stats about the network traffic to and from the HP-UX box. You can download precompiled binaries here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/tcpdump-3.6.2/

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/tcptrace-5.2.1/

The syntax for these can be tricky, but I think the following is what you're after:

tcpdump -i lan host

This will display to stdout so you get an idea of exactly what it's doing real time, however unless you can read at an outstanding rate, you must redirect it to a file or caputure it in a binary format. Once captured in binary format use 'tcptrace' to analyze the details and summarize them for you. This should give you a solid picture of how these two boxes are talking with each other. If you haven't installed the trial for glance plus, be sure to give it a try as well as it comes in handy on many other performance issues with your HP-UX box. Hope that helps.

-Mike

[Bert Kamps]

I installed glance and it works perfectly!
Especially netglance is a very good program!

I'll try tcpdump/tcptrace.