Bandwidth monitor for a server with many virtual hosts

[Madison Kelly]

Scott Elcomb wrote:
> 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/

oooooh, a potential perl solution! This is gooood, very gooood. :P

Thanks! Looking into it now!

Madi
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