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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.