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[wills17]

Hello,

I was wondering if there's any way of showing the current server usage. (as in how many mbps it's currently utilizing. in total (in and out).)

Thanks.

[sirius]

Originally posted by xenotick
Hello,

I was wondering if there's any way of showing the current server usage. (as in how many mbps it's currently utilizing. in total (in and out).)

Thanks.

Install MRTG.

Sirius

[wills17]

Is it possible to get an output from MRTG that you could put into a php script showing live on the website?

[CyanoX]

Try Cacti.

[fog]

There's also some command-line tools. I run "iftop" (I don't believe this is a standard tool, but I'm pretty sure it's GPLed and all) when I want to keep an eye on bandwidth use.

[JHServers]

Originally posted by xenotick
Is it possible to get an output from MRTG that you could put into a php script showing live on the website?

You don't even need to do that. You can use regular html for it to work, type this to get it display as a part of your web site:

</img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/path/to/mrtg/xx.xx.xx.xx_day.png">

Remove the slash, replace the X's with the actual IP or file name, etc.. You can get the link to the image, by right clicking on it in your mrtg direcotry and clicking properties. Put that link in your img src tag. Good luck.

[wills17]

Heya,

Thanks for the help, although, the bandwidth usage will be used in an if statement, however after checking their website I noticed you can get a statistics file which contains all the information as the bandwidth usage is updated.

Although, it'd be nice just to have one command to execute in php. I'll have a look into that command fog.

[the--dud]

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bmon/ is actually really sweet, live bandwidth monitor with graphs, all in terminal
Beat that! hehe... its nice and fairly accurate.

[datruesurfer]

Instead of wasting server resources, I would talk to your host about getting an MRTG from the switch.

[HD Fanatic]

Any script/software out there that will display the "Service Status" from WHM/Cpanel on your desktop/system tray for windows??