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Title: Measure internet traffic
Post by: smeerbartje on September 29, 2008, 11:30:08 PM
Is it possible to install a RPM which enables the measurement of internet traffic? I would love to keep track of the daily downloaded and uploaded traffic on ETH1. Is this possible? I already installed Sysmon (http://wiki.contribs.org/Sysmon), but this only shows a graph of the average speed of the network interfaces.
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: smeerbartje on September 30, 2008, 09:26:03 PM
Nobody? Am I missing some standard functionality or are you guys not interested in measuring bandwith per day/week/month/etc.?
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: frederikbay on September 30, 2008, 11:45:08 PM
How about sme7admin

http://wiki.contribs.org/Sme7admin

- frederik
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: smeerbartje on October 01, 2008, 04:52:16 PM
Quote from: frederikbay on September 30, 2008, 11:45:08 PM
How about sme7admin

http://wiki.contribs.org/Sme7admin

- frederik

Hi Frederik. Thank you for your reply, but is it possible to get a list of bandwith used per day/month/etc? I don't want to install to many contribs on my freshly installed server. Can you please tell me what functionality this contrib has?

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Can someone post some screenshots?
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: Curly on October 01, 2008, 08:05:19 PM
Or cacti, there is a contrib for that (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=35462.0 (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=35462.0)). It gives me 4 different standard graphs: one day, one week, one month, one year. It also has some totals and allows you to zoom in on any date. For some samples you could look at http://www.cacti.net/ (http://www.cacti.net/).

It erases the data after one year, if you want to keep that longer you will have to change some settings.

Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: janet on October 01, 2008, 11:56:44 PM
Cacti contrib here

http://wiki.contribs.org/Cacti

Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: Gert on October 02, 2008, 09:39:39 AM
Try this:

http://wiki.contribs.org/Sarg
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: misnerspace on October 04, 2008, 12:22:48 AM
Cacti looks amazing. Is it fairly safe to install it? The only reason I'm asking is that I like to keep my production SME box really basic with the minimum number of contribs installed in the hope it will minimise potentential problems later on. Unfortunately I haven't got a test server (due to lack of funds) at the moment.
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: kevinb on October 04, 2008, 01:48:46 AM
I would say your choices are:


The Sysmon install and setup is the simplest followed by SystemMonitor (newer version of Sysmon but not in the repository). Sme7admin is the most useful to me but the most complicated to install since it requires outdated dependants. I have found Cacti takes some setup, unlike the others, to get good output.
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: Gert on October 05, 2008, 11:44:19 AM
Quote from: misnerspace on October 04, 2008, 12:22:48 AM
Unfortunately I haven't got a test server (due to lack of funds) at the moment.

Why don't you use vmware to install a test server? Works like a charm!
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: smeerbartje on December 01, 2008, 05:05:48 PM
FYI: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,42780.msg202220.html#msg202220
Title: Re: Measure internet traffic
Post by: Franco on December 04, 2008, 12:42:00 AM
This last option will be the best and you can find the how-to here http://wiki.contribs.org/Vnstat