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In the past I’ve written about a few ways you can set up decent IP traffic accounting on your network. If you have already set this up and are champing at the bit for more ways your can increase situational awareness of your network state you can try one of the following tools related to pmacct:

• http://www.pmacct.net/pnrg/
• http://www.aptivate.org/Projects.BMOTools.pmGraph.html
• http://www.net-track.ch/opensource/pmacct-snmp/
• http://code.google.com/p/netact/
• http://projects.celuloza.ro/bwstat/
• http://www.pmacct.net/fe/
• http://sven.anderson.de/flox/
• http://www.ntop.org/
• http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/
• http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/
• http://etherape.sourceforge.net/

These tools allows you to graph and/or analyse your traffic data in a variety of ways. If you are currently using one or more of these, drop us a comment and let us know your success or failure stories!