Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:01:37 -0700 From: Max Clark <maxc@beast.clarksys.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth Usage Billing Message-ID: <40C9D761.6010601@beast.clarksys.com> In-Reply-To: <200406110821.47866.jbarrett@amduat.net> References: <40C9CAD0.6060701@beast.clarksys.com> <200406110821.47866.jbarrett@amduat.net>
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Jacob, Have you had any problems using mrtg+rrd to track this data? I guess the better question would be, what would advantages of using cricket over mrtg (or vice versa) be? Thanks, Max Jacob S. Barrett wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2004 08:08 am, Max Clark <maxc@beast.clarksys.com> wrote: > >>MRTG is the defacto snmp bandwidth monitoring tool, however it does not >>track total GB transfered and the 95th percentile without external >>hacks, and even with this, your data will be truncated rather quickly. > > > You can configure MRTG or any other RRD based system to keep higher resolution > data longer. We keep the 5 second data for 3 months. After that I think it > goes into 20 minute averages that are kept for a year, then daily averages > for 5 years. The RRD files will be a lot larger, but a lot more accurate for > billing purposes. > > >>How does one set up a bandwidth billing system (are there systems >>already out there for this) to track their customer's usage? > > > We just us a simple perl script to sum up the RRD data at the end of the > billing cycle. We also have some PHP pages for customers to monitor their > usage over the month. > > Another company I know uses cricket to dump the data into a SQL database as > well as RRD. They use the RRD for graphing and the SQL for billing. >
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