vnstat is an excellent and simple tool to monitor your server or interface bandwidth and the results can be displayed both on the server console and on the web interface with vnStat phpFrontend.
rpm available at : http://packages.sw.be/vnstat/
# rpm -ivh vnstat-1.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
After you install, just edit the /etc/vnstat.conf config file and setup the following lines with according to your needs.
# default interface
Interface “eth0″
# location of the database directory
DatabaseDir “/var/lib/vnstat”
rpm available at : http://packages.sw.be/vnstat/
# rpm -ivh vnstat-1.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
After you install, just edit the /etc/vnstat.conf config file and setup the following lines with according to your needs.
# default interface
Interface “eth0″
If you want to store it in a separate database or directory just edit the following lines and change it to your new path/directory.
# location of the database directory
DatabaseDir “/var/lib/vnstat”
Running vnstat as a deamon
Go to http://humdi.net/vnstat/init.d/
Download the corerct os version of your server and copy it inside the /etc/init.d/. Then enable the daemon by
# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/vnstat
# chkconfig vnstat on
# service vnstat start
# chkconfig vnstat on
# service vnstat start
Installing the vnStat php Frontend
Download the vnstat php frontend tool directly from http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/files/vnstat_php_frontend-1.5.1.tar.gz. Copy or move the folder to your document-root directory (say for example /var/www/html)
Edit the following lines in the config.php to setup the language and the interface list and title to finish the setup
$language = ‘en’;
$iface_list = array(‘eth1′, ‘sixxs’);
$iface_title['eth1'] = ‘Internal’;
$iface_title['sixxs'] = ‘SixXS IPv6′;
$iface_list = array(‘eth1′, ‘sixxs’);
$iface_title['eth1'] = ‘Internal’;
$iface_title['sixxs'] = ‘SixXS IPv6′;
access the vnstat url now to display the stats. It is advisable to setup a password protect directory to avoid unauthorized access.
Access the gui of vnstat as below
http://192.168.1.67/vnstat
We can get all these information from console itself
We can get all these information from console itself
Statistics by day:
# vnstat -d
By hour
# vnstat -h
By month
# vnstat -m
Live monitoring of the network interface
# vnstat -l
show top10
# vnstat -t
update database
# vnstat -u
calculate traffic
# vnstat -tr
show top10
# vnstat -t
update database
# vnstat -u
calculate traffic
# vnstat -tr
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