Monitoring Audio Streams

[benningtonr]

I need to monitor about 15 audio streams leaving our station for bandwidth utilization.
Has anyone attempted this before?
They are shoutcast streams.

[slansing]

Do you have software which already monitors this locally? If so, you may be able to write a plugin which interfaces with the software and returns data to you, lets see if others who work in broadcasting chime in.

[benningtonr]

we have software which monitors the streams for silence, but not bandwidth.

[CGraham]

If there is some physical network separation, you could monitoring the switch ports they use...

[benningtonr]

I had thought about that, but all 15 streams use the same nic

[benningtonr]

they do all use different IP address, but that would still just give me the total numbers for the nic, and they would all read the same, correct?

[abrist]

That is correct. I took a look around the exchange and no plugin currently exists there that would do what you are attempting. There were a couple that would try to collect bandwidth data from an ip rather than interface, but your mileage may vary.

[slansing]

You could create a hostgroup or servicegroup.. even a BPI group for the different NIC's to reside in, and then aggregate the port I/O under one umbrella. Just adding some thoughts to your project that may help.

[benningtonr]

There are no different nic's, just one for the server.

[slansing]

Oh woops, I meant IP's. It would be a good idea to place them under the same group as they would be monitored for the same purpose.