Hello
Given that Bandmin and Cpanel are no use, what options are there for measuring the bandwidth used by virtual accounts (http and ftp)?

How is it done through shell?

I have looked at Musita but it only works on RAQ's, any products out there that will do it for a standard Linux server?

Gordon

Hi Gordon,

What is so bad about bandmin?

For the best measurements I think you need MRTG: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher and then configure it to show all stats and bandwidth for virtual accounts. There are a lot of third party tools to accomplish this.

Hey Gordon,

you can install mtrg (spelling?) and that will produce graphs etc of your bandwidth usage and its a lot more accurate.

You can download it here: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

Hope that helps :)

Check out mod_watch from ww.snert.com. Works along-side MRTG. Works great.

Wow. You learn something every day. I didn't know MRTG worked with virtual accounts. Interesting.

MRTG will work with just about anything. MRTG just takes data in and displays it in those ever-familiar charts. mod_watch monitors apache virtual host traffic and just feeds MRTG the information for it to graph.

You are correct, though. MRTG usually isn't used for virtual IP monitoring straight off the box. It's usually used along with snmp and the router the box is connected to.

Just remember that MRTG isn't doing the monitoring; it's simply reporting and displaying data given to it from another program. :)

I have had a look at Mod_watch and it only monitors Apache throughput, not FTP.

How do I get a grip on how much data is going through virtual hosting account by mail, ftp and http?

Gordon

If you use ProFTP, it has logging in it, as do most other ftp servers. Just make some bandwidth logs for each virtual host, or each ftp account, however your system is set up.

As for mail, I don't know of any way to monitor that. Perhaps setting limits on user's boxes will keep traffic down some? Anyone else know how to (effectively) monitor mail bandwidth? Unless you have an abusive user, or someone with 1000 active pop accounts, mail traffic is usually so small you don't have to worry about it.

Hopefully nocsoft will have something implented.