[SATLUG] Bandwith reports via email

[Brad Knowles]

On 5/11/07, twistedpickles wrote:

>  Anyone on the list familiar with bandwidth monitoring tools that can
>  email results. I have the need to monitor results with an average of
>  usage per hour. I know that iptables has capabilities to monitor but
>  I'm not sure it can give me an average. It would also be great if I
>  can monitor per ip and give brief description of usage such as ipsec,
>  http, ftp and etc.

Well, mrtg can give you graphical charts, and I don't see how it 
would be too difficult to pull text information out of the same 
round-robin database (rrd) tables for a report sent via e-mail.

Other than that, I'd look at existing services that exist like this 
on the 'net, and try to figure out how they're doing it.  There may 
be some simple and well-known tools in this area.

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