I've done casual research into the subject and am truly dismayed at the lack of compatible tools for such a simple task. Maybe someone can provide assistance.
We have a NetScreen NS-5GT in the office. I need to be able to get a glance of current traffic per endpoint — I think the equivalent of 'get sessions' with byte counts/rates. I don't care about bars, graphs, and reports. Something as simple as a classic software firewall display would be perfect.
I can't shell out money on something real like SolarWinds products, so a free solution is essential. I'm willing to do a little work but refuse to program something from scratch. It's not prudent right now for me to install a hub or otherwise mess around physically. There must be something out there I can use, maybe in combination. I don't believe I'm asking too much.
Specific answers only please, e.g. monitoring software you know will actually work with this antiquated device. I've read about general approaches to the broader problem dozens of times already.
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As mentioned above, PRTG will work well with the Netscreens for showing you real-time data and also some historical capabilities. Cacti is also very useful if you are only interested in historical graphs.
There is not much you can do on the interfaces themselves with the NetScreen. You can do counting on the policies, but not the interface, so this would only be useful if you have one interface per zone and then only if you have a single policy for whatever zone to zone traffic you plan on monitoring.