About:
NISCA (Network Interface Statistics Collection Agent) is a more flexible PHP4-based MRTG replacement. It supports both SNMP and reading localhost's /proc/net/dev device file directly for statistics gathering. It uses MySQL to store collected data in, and stores statistics for bytes transferred, packets transferred, transfer errors, and dropped packets separated into a per interface incoming and outgoing set. It generates both graphs and a textual report table using the data from any timeframe contained in the database. The entire package runs using PHP4; it uses the CGI binary version of PHP for stats collection (running in the background as a "daemon") and either the CGI or Apache module versions to generate the GUI form and reports. It can also import existing MRTG logfiles.

Author:
Brett Baugh [contact developer]

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8.48/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://nisca.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://nisca.sourceforge.net/stable/nisca-2.5.tgz
Tar/BZ2:
http://nisca.sourceforge.net/stable/nisca-2.5.tar.bz
Zip:
http://nisca.sourceforge.net/stable/nisca-2.5.zip
Changelog:
http://nisca.sourceforge.net/docs/CHANGELOG.html
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1640
Mirror site:
http://www.isthisthingon.org/nisca/
Demo site:
http://www.isthisthingon.org/statsdemo/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		PHP, SQL
[Topic]		Internet :: Log Analysis, System :: Networking :: Monitoring

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.5	15-Oct-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Great package!!
by ascii2k - Aug 9th 2002 12:29:20

Just wanted to add my 2cents. This is an excellent product! I highly recommend it. If/When we get to see 3.0 it is going to be even better!!

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[»] MRTG Import Script
by Brett Baugh - Feb 10th 2001 02:24:07

There is now a script available for NISCA that will import data from MRTG logfiles. Come 'n' get it! :)

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[»] I use it...
by Pf - Apr 22nd 2001 05:32:56

well, 2.0 it's finally out. Please test it on a fast mysql server, I need to understand if it's my machine that's too slow of if we need some more work to better support large networks. Support for 64 bits counters is there but you need to recompile your php snmp library. Blame php developers, not Brett on this. I use it with Cisco routers and it works well. Pf

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[»] Re: MRTG Import Script
by Fabio M. Di Nitto - Apr 23rd 2001 03:31:08

Well done Brett!

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