total traffic per day/wk/mo/yr reports

[mikesg]

I have a client which just entered an agreement with a small local cable internet provider which has a monthly usage cap. I would like to set up something on the firewall (OBSD 4.6) that I can log into via SSH and run a command to show me the current usage report for the day/wk/mo/yr. The ISP sends out warning emails when the quota is getting close, so I don't need a warning system. Just the report to confirm the ISP's numbers and to be able to check on our own. Long ago I used ipa, but would like to know if there is some new snazzy solution here.

[arch]

you can try mrtg

[mikesg]

I already use that. I'm not looking for averages. I'm looking for actual bytes transfered.

[rbelk]

Check out vnStat. I can't post the URL because I have not posted 5 times to the Forum. I have used it on Linux and FreeBSD and it works with no issues.

Here's the output

rbelk@rbvmwk:~$ vnstat --help
 vnStat 1.9 by Teemu Toivola <tst at iki dot fi>

         -q,  --query          query database
         -h,  --hours          show hours
         -d,  --days           show days
         -m,  --months         show months
         -w,  --weeks          show weeks
         -t,  --top10          show top10
         -s,  --short          use short output
         -u,  --update         update database
         -i,  --iface          select interface (default: eth0)
         -?,  --help           short help
         -v,  --version        show version
         -tr, --traffic        calculate traffic
         -ru, --rateunit       swap configured rate unit
         -l,  --live           show transfer rate in real time

rbelk@rbvmwk:~$ vnstat
Database updated: Mon Nov 30 11:55:02 2009

   em0 since 10/04/09

          rx:  32.37 GiB      tx:  84.11 GiB      total:  116.49 GiB

   monthly
                     rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
       Oct '09     17.21 GiB |   34.81 GiB |   52.02 GiB |  162.92 kbit/s
       Nov '09     15.17 GiB |   49.30 GiB |   64.47 GiB |  211.91 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated     15.40 GiB |   50.07 GiB |   65.48 GiB |

   daily
                     rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     yesterday    128.09 MiB |    1.25 GiB |    1.38 GiB |  133.91 kbit/s
         today     69.58 MiB |  404.34 MiB |  473.91 MiB |   90.49 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated       138 MiB |     813 MiB |     951 MiB |

[denta]

Or maybe to check netflows with pflow (4) and nfcapd/nfdump could be an idea? Its quite easy to setup and really powerful/awesome!

[ephemera]

I had written something like vnstat in the past. The rx/tx bytes from the NIC usually doesn't correspond well with the download figure the ISP is charging you for.

[roundkat]

Originally Posted by rbelk

Check out vnStat. I can't post the URL because I have not posted 5 times to the Forum. I have used it on Linux and FreeBSD and it works with no issues.

Working on the OpenBSD install now..

rk

[mikesg]

Originally Posted by ephemera

I had written something like vnstat in the past. The rx/tx bytes from the NIC usually doesn't correspond well with the download figure the ISP is charging you for.

And this would be because why? It would be kind of self-defeating if it's not accurate.

[mikesg]

When I try to build (make all) vnstat, I get this:

# make all
gcc -O2  -c vnstat.c
gcc -O2  -c ifinfo.c
gcc -O2  -c dbxml.c
gcc -O2  -c dbshow.c
gcc -O2  -c dbaccess.c
gcc -O2  -c dbmerge.c
gcc -O2  -c common.c
gcc -O2  -c misc.c
gcc -O2  -c cfg.c
gcc -O2  -c traffic.c
gcc  vnstat.o ifinfo.o dbxml.o dbshow.o dbaccess.o dbmerge.o common.o misc.o cfg.o traffic.o -lm -o vnstat
ifinfo.o(.text+0x157): In function `getiflist':
: warning: strcat() is almost always misused, please use strlcat()
gcc -O2  -c vnstatd.c
gcc -O2  -c dbcache.c
gcc  vnstatd.o ifinfo.o dbaccess.o dbcache.o common.o misc.o cfg.o -lm -o vnstatd
ifinfo.o(.text+0x157): In function `getiflist':
: warning: strcat() is almost always misused, please use strlcat()
gcc -O2  -c vnstati.c
gcc -O2  -c image.c
gcc  vnstati.o image.o dbaccess.o dbmerge.o common.o misc.o cfg.o -lm -lgd -o vnstati
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgd
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1

Stop in /home/stuff/vnstat-1.10/src (line 17 of Makefile).

Not good at diagnosing build problems. It appears the issue is with the -igd parameter.

[ocicat]

Originally Posted by mikesg

It appears the issue is with the -igd parameter.

The parameter is -lgd which means "include the gd library when linking". Most likely, the library was not found on the path understood by the linker.

[BSDfan666]

Pretty obvious error message, it can't link with the gd library.. it's a library used for generating images.

This is a dependency problem, install the package.
$ sudo pkg_add gd

EDIT: ocicat beat me to it.