Hi,

I am looking for a reliable bandwidth usage monitor for my CPanel/RedHat server.

I need to be able to account for all usage - FTP, mail and HTTP and for each individual account.

Jay at pweb said take a look at freshmeat and i did, but i really need some help choosign the correct one for me and my server.

Cheers.

Originally posted by SuperDon
Hi,

I am looking for a reliable bandwidth usage monitor for my CPanel/RedHat server.

I need to be able to account for all usage - FTP, mail and HTTP and for each individual account.

Jay at pweb said take a look at freshmeat and i did, but i really need some help choosign the correct one for me and my server.

Cheers.


Are you using one IP for each user, or one IP shared by multiple user? With the former, it is real easy, you need to create 'accounting rules' on your ipchains/iptables. However, with the latter it is much more difficult.

At the moment I have accounts sharing one IP.

Originally posted by SuperDon
At the moment I have accounts sharing one IP.

Well, it is not easy, you could scan their access_log, but it will only count HTTP traffic. You need another (clever) solution to count mail traffic for instance.

We scan their Apache access_log, and the logs generated by ProFTPD for FTP traffic -- still working on a reliable way to measure mail traffic.