The “nicstat” command it application to monitor Network Traffic and give you more static regarding traffic in Kilobytes per second, Average Packet Traffic Size, Packet Send and Received,
– You Can Download Directly from Sourcforge.net Project as link below with “wget” command
# wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/nicstat/nicstat-1.92.tar.gz
– Extract tar file
# tar xvf nicstat-1.92.tar.gz
# cd nicstat-1.92
# ls -l total 212 -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 4952 Oct 22 2012 ChangeLog.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 509833 staff 475 Oct 16 2012 dladm.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 1312 Oct 18 2012 enicstat -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 8902 Oct 18 2012 LICENSE.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 1629 Sep 5 2012 Makefile.Linux -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 1596 Oct 18 2012 Makefile.Solaris -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 9423 Oct 22 2012 nicstat.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 67376 Oct 22 2012 nicstat.c -rwxr-xr-x 1 509833 staff 4134 Oct 16 2012 nicstat.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 509833 staff 834 Oct 22 2012 README.txt
– Compile the nicstat.c by gcc and using command
# /usr/bin/gcc nicstat.c -o nicstat -lkstat -lgen -lsocket -lrt
– After Compile finish it will create executable file “nicstat” at Current Directory
– You can start using “nicstat” Directly from you current Path or set “PATH” in your home User by add Folder path to ~/.profile to export Line
– To have Extended Output you can using parameter with “nicstat” command
# nicstat -x 11:37:34 RdKB WrKB RdPkt WrPkt IErr OErr Coll NoCP Defer %Util lo0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 aggr0 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
– -s to have output for Read & Write Kilobytes per second
# nicstat -s
Time Int rKB/s wKB/s
11:38:19 lo0 0.000 0.000
11:38:19 aggr0 0.007 0.000
– To print Summary static and traffic for each 1 Second you can used “1” with “nicstat”
# nicstat 1
Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util Sat
11:40:37 lo0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11:40:37 aggr0 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.00 537.9 97.96 0.00 0.00
Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util Sat
11:40:38 lo0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11:40:38 aggr0 0.30 0.35 5.00 1.00 61.20 354.0 0.00 0.00
Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util Sat
11:40:39 lo0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11:40:39 aggr0 0.30 0.39 5.00 2.00 61.20 198.0 0.00 0.00
– To have Output static in every 2 Second for 3 times use “nicstat 2 3”
# nicstat 2 3
Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util Sat
11:42:22 lo0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11:42:22 aggr0 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.00 537.9 97.96 0.00 0.00
Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util Sat
11:42:24 lo0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11:42:24 aggr0 2.56 0.17 28.50 0.50 91.89 354.0 0.00 0.00
Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util Sat
11:42:26 lo0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11:42:26 aggr0 1.15 0.17 12.50 0.50 94.48 354.0 0.00 0.00
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