Bandwidth monitor for a server with many virtual hosts

[Scott Elcomb]

On 8/15/07, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>    Until now, I have not worried about how much bandwidth various
> customers whom we host use. Now that our number of clients grows though,
> I need to start tracking who uses how much bandwidth.
>
>    What do you guys here use to log bandwidth usage? Our clients use
> mail, web and can copy data to/from the server via scp/rsync. I suspect
> I could hack up something using TCP dump, but I really doubt I could
> come up with something elegant and efficient. :)

I've happily been using AWStats for several years.  It doesn't track
scp or rsync but does analyze and report web, ftp, and mail traffic.

It's written in Perl; you may be able to extend it with additional log
parsers for scp, rsync, tcp, etc.

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

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