Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:05:09 +0100 From: "Rob" <rob@robhulme.com> To: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Bandwidth usage monitoring... Message-ID: <LPBBLIHFHEKDFLJEBFJGOEHMEAAA.rob@robhulme.com>
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I'm trying to setup a new FreeBSD web server at work - and I want to be able to monitor the amount of bandwidth / data being used each month by different clients / services. It doesn't need to be majorly detailed, but I would need to be able to see: 1. How much data has been sent / received in total that month 2. How much was web traffic for each virtual domain 3. How much was sent / received in total that month broken down by port.. I think I can sort out 2 because I have analog installed, and I can wrap some PHP around that to get a report for each domain, but if there is a better solution that would be really useful. The idea behind 1 is that our ISP charges us based on how much data we send / receive each month, but won't tell us how much we have used! They just send us the bill!!! I'd like to have some idea myself... Point 3 is because I'm thinking of offering a free email service for the Christian Unions in the UK on our server, but if it was consuming >4GB / month then it would start to affect the running cost of the server (which would be bad)... at the moment I'm the only person with an email account on there. It would be ideal if I could record the amount of data sent / received per user email account... but I don't know exactly how I'd do this (unless I coded it somehow into the PHP webmail thing I'll be writing) - that would be best because I could see if anyone was abusing the system, or limit the amount of data people could send (or something). Some advice on what software there is out there to do this would be really good :0) I know of MTRG, but that just graphs bandwidth doesnt it? Many thanks! -Rob -------------------------------- http://www.robhulme.com http://www.christianunion.org.uk Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish. Let Oliver Emberton into the fishing industry, and fishing will no longer be free. Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. ---- R. Buckminster Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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