I'd recommend doing it on a second box (Or turn it into a pfSense package).
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Brian Caouette <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked at cacti a few days ago. It looks real nice but I have no clue > how to set this up on the pfSense box. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Feb 16, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Walter Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > > For the real time monitor, if you switch from WAN to LAN, you can see who > is doing spikes. For the other items, you can see how much bandwidth each > internal IP addresses has used in one of those packages. Unless you have > servers in a DMZ outside of the firewall or are doing some sort of traffic > reflection to internal hosts, all traffic to/from a desktop to the firewall > is traffic to the internet. > > I might do some screenshots to show what I mean (if I can find the time). > > For netflow, I setup a Windows application in a VM (from ManageEngine I > think). It had simple instructions to tell the netflow generator (the > firewall) to send the stats traffic to the Windows box. Then I used the the > reporting features in the application to view how much data each host was > sending/receiving. I was able to tell that one web server had way to much > traffic and that a music streaming server was running 800% of normal. I > understand that there are open source versions of this program that run on > Linux/FreeBSD. Setting one of these up is on my todo list. With a bit of > programming, I'm sure you do this with Cacti/RRD, but then again, I've been > a perl programmer for 20 years, so my idea of a "bit of programming" might > radically differ from yours :) > > If I can find the time, I'll see if I can find any notes. > > > Walter > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On Tue 17 Feb 2015 10:33:21 NZDT +1300, Walter Parker wrote: >> >> > In Realtime, you can use the dashboard app. >> >> The pfsense dashboard? I don't think so. traffic going through a >> particular interface is not so interesting. >> >> > For plugins, BandwidthD and Darkstat have some information. >> >> Unfortuntely the info is of no value. I am not interested in any traffic >> volume between LAN, DMZ, WIFI, LAN2, etc. I am only interested in the >> traffic going through WAN, and with which *internal* host. The above >> packages can only tell me which *Internet* sites had how much traffic >> through WAN, but that side of the connection is of no interest to me. I >> want to know which of my clients have created the traffic for which I >> have to pay my ISP, so I can work out which flatmate has to pay for it, >> or fix the computer with a problem that wastes my money. >> >> I realise those in the USA and a few other countries don't have this >> problem, but it sure exists where I live and I'm sure it's not the only >> country. In any case it's good to know what gobbles up resources, even >> if they're free. >> >> > I've used netflow on other systems to get this sort of information, but >> for >> > pfSense you would have to setup a second box that ran the netflow >> > visualizer to see the traffic information from one of the netflow >> plugins. >> >> Copying a file onto another computer to look at its content isn't too >> much of a problem. Do you know of a good tutorial that lists the >> software needed, and basic config for each part? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Volker >> >> -- >> Volker Kuhlmann >> http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. >> _______________________________________________ >> pfSense mailing list >> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >> Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold >> > > > > -- > The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of > zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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