[mrtg] Re: Reporting Top-10 Usage stats

[Fragmeister]

I am new to owning or renting a dedicated server and my provider is using
this to monitor the server bandwidth but I am still very skeptical and
confused on how they calculate every month and just now finding out my
bandwidth is going through the roof..

I am questioning the accuracy of this monitor and want to know if it is or
not 100% in calculating bandwidth? I am also wondering if I have 3 stat
programs running on my server and all have a data transfer total for each
site/month and I am trying to total up all of this and the hits my sites get
but it seems not to add up to what my server provider is stating I used in
bandwidth..

I get a total of 50GB free a month and my provider is saying I went over 25
GB but I cannot understand how when all my site hits totaled only a bit over
3 million hits and unique visits were a little over 100,000 for the month of
March. Now for the month of April they are saying I am averaging over 100GB
but this program does not show this to my understanding and the chart does
not show totals...I am just worried that I am getting ripped off and trying
to find the best way to track all this myself ,so I can compare it to my
providers totals each month and thought by calculating all the servers hits,
that I could do this..

How accurate is this program and could there possibly be a mistake in it's
reading, or has there ever been? When dealing with this much money for extra
bandwidth each month, I want to be 100% sure this monitor is doing the right
thing and not giving superficial readings and putting a whole in my
pockets..

Any help and understanding is really appreciated..

Thanks
John



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rolen, Mark E." <MERolen at APACMail.com>
To: <mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch>; "MRTG MailingList" <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Cc: "Senthilvel Rangaswamy" <Senthilvel.Rangaswamy at Eng.Sun.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Reporting Top-10 Usage stats


> I wrote a very simple script that runs at midnight every night, which runs
> through all of my .html files and grabs the average in and average out
> percentages from each daily graph, adds them together, and emails the 10
> highest results to me with site info and such.  I figured I'd use the math
> that mrtg had already done for me rather than trying to tackle reading
> directly from the log files   : )
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 6:39 PM
> To: MRTG MailingList
> Cc: Senthilvel Rangaswamy
> Subject: [mrtg] Reporting Top-10 Usage stats
>
>
> Hi All:-
>
> We have a 2 switches serving 200 hosts each. I am using MRTG to
> monitor the traffic on each node of the switch and thereby
> knowing the traffic that is flowing in and out of each
> workstation connected.
>
> Each graph has max, min, avg traffic data over 5 min, daily, weekly
> and monthly.
>
> I am trying to consolidate something like a top-10 nodes that
> has the most traffic.
>
> I checked in the contrib section. There is no such tool. I
> was looking at the *.log files created by mrtg. Everyline
> had 5 columns except the first line which had only 3
> columns. Is there any documentation about this ?
>
> My questions are :
>
> 1) Are there any similar kind of tools out there for
>    sample ?
>
> 2) Is there any documenation on format of log file content.
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> ..Senthil.
>
> "Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never
>  precluded their reinvention."
>                                                     - Larry Wall
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