Topic: make webstats with hotsanic

[hanscees]

hi all,
at www.hotsanic.org you can find a package that can make beautifull graphs on webpages with info like traffic per ip adress, i/o cpu uti;ization and so on. It uses only perl and no snmp, which is good.
I tested it with e-smith 4.12 and it worked.
I installed the rpm with imagemagic. then copied the latest version (tgz) over it at /usr/home/HoTsaNIC and all worked. You need the rpm to resolve some independencies. Also installed libbtiff. It works like a charm. At last I can see when i had a lot of traffic and what (internal) ip caused it.

just a tip

hc

[soprom]

Anyone having tested this on SME6.5 ?

I'm looking for an "easy-to-instal" ip accounting application to install on SME as server/gateway.

Any hints ?

Thanks

[Franco]

I just followed this thread http://forum.ev1servers.net/showthread.php?s=cd4fea4bdc66cb79c904c3ebc4c5c010&threadid=11596
on a 6.01 and works fine, it shouldn't be different on a 6.5.

Nice app

[soprom]

Thanks, but I've installed this with no luck. I might have miss a step and it's hard to check. Folder /usr/... doesn't seem to be coherent with what I usually find in howtos. So I tried to set it up in /opt and graph don't display.

[Franco]

Let's see:
-I set it up under /usr/local/
-I used the latest distribution 0.5
-I did not install rrdtool as that already came with system monitor. So the path to it under BINDPATH is /usr/bin when you configure hotsanic
-I had already installed imagemagick to run Drupal from here:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/star/mitel/contrib/image-magick/
-I added a custom template to init.d so the /usr/local/rrdgraph starts automatically upon reboot.
-This new version differs a little bit from the tutorial on the because a few paths to the application are different (example: old one uses /settings.all and the new one uses /var/settings/) but they're only few.
In 6.5 if you don't have these packages installed (rrdtool or imagemagick) the tutorial should get you done. Or move to 7Beta1 and experiment with the great power of YUM.

Now, this is just my personal opinion about the accounting capabilities:
If you're trying to account for clients on you net, there are much better packages than this. Check this one out:
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Install%20ObjectPlanets%20Network%20Probe%20How%20To

[soprom]

Ok thanks... I'll try again since it is a package that goes straight to the point: statistics/ip !