You could use pmacct [http://www.pmacct.net/] to collect netflow data from your routers/switches and achieve similar functionality. However CloudStack wouldn't know how to talk to pmacct to fetch the usage data. Feel free to suggest a pmacct integration on the dev list / JIRA
On 1/18/13 3:48 AM, "Kishan Kavala" <kishan.kav...@citrix.com> wrote: >CloudStack is integrated with Traffic Sentinel to meter bandwidth for >Basic (Shared) network. This integration can be configured as per you >need using below parameters: > >traffic.sentinel.include.zones (default External) >traffic.sentinel.exclude.zones > >All the traffic to/from zones defined in traffic.sentinel.include.zones >parameter are metered. Any traffic to/from zones defined in >traffic.sentinel.exclude.zones won't be metered. Note that these zones >are Traffic Sentinel zones and not CS zones. >By default all traffic to/from External zone is metered and VM-VM traffic >won't be metered. > >~kishan > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pierre-Yves Ritschard [mailto:p...@spootnik.org] >> Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 6:14 PM >> To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Network Bandwidth Usage for Basic Networking >> >> Hi, >> >> As far as I can tell, network bandwidth usage is computed by reporting >>the >> tx/rx counters of the VM interfaces bearing public IPs on hypervisors. >> >> If this is the case I suppose VM-to-VM bandwidth is also metered then ? >> Which would mean that billing would take into account intra-zone >>traffic, is >> this correct ? >> >> If so, is there a way to prevent intra-zone traffic from being metered, >>bonus >> question, is it possible to prevent an arbitrary CIDR from being >>metered as >> well ? >> >> Cheers, >> - pyr
