Hi Pieter, I actually implemented Simon's scripts and they seem to have worked fine. Although I couldn't figure out how to get the rrd graphs out so I download and installed cacti.
It's quite an impressive piece of software, all installed and working but I'm struggling to understand how to get cumulative bandwidth usage graphs out of it. I use Simon's method for creating the ip-stats.rrd file and updating it every minute from cron (I realise this can be done by cacti but I'm still too new to it to figure out how), and I get cacti to read the file and generate graphs from it (although they can't seem to show bandwidth usage graphs). Basically what I am after is the ability to pull out the bandwidth usage per IP so I know which servers are consuming the most bandwidth resources. shorewall easily does this through it's accounting features, but I really need to correlate that data to show hourly, daily, monthly and yearly totals of bandwidth usage per IP. If anyone can suggest something here I'd appreciate it. Thankyou. Michael. ----- Original Message ---- From: Pieter Ennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Shorewall Users <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 19 January, 2007 10:49:30 AM Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Packet counting/auditing per IP Hi Michael, Michael Mansour wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using shorewall 2.4.9 running on Scientific Linux 4.4 (RHEL 4 Update 4). > > I handle various subents and IP's for various clients, and they all go > through the shorewall firewall system. > > Some clients have subnets, some have only single IP's. > > I'd like to start counting the bandwidth they are using, whether that be for > subnets or IP's on their dedicated servers. > > Can shorewall do this? if so, how? will I need to upgrade the shorewall > version? Shorewall can do some things in that area, just read about it here: http://www.shorewall.net/Accounting.html > If not, what is the best way to do this considering the hosting environment > is all Linux based (apart from the HP procurve switches which are used). I'm personally very fond of SNMP in combination with Cacti. If that's too much, it would probably be easy to hack up something using only ifconfig/rrdtool or snmp/rrdtool. http://www.cacti.net/ -- - Pieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
