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    • jdillardJ
      jdillard
      last edited by

      Latest snapshots with Traffic Totals 0.5 is out now.

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      • luckman212L
        luckman212 LAYER 8
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        moved - sorry jdillard!

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        • jdillardJ
          jdillard
          last edited by

          Please keep discussions on topic and make a new thread for topics not about this package.

          edit: Thanks luckman212, and no worries.

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          • luckman212L
            luckman212 LAYER 8
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            @jdillard:

            Latest snapshots with Traffic Totals 0.5 is out now.

            where do we look to find this?  I am on 2.3.2.a.20160717.2316 and I still see only 0.4_1 … does it take time to roll out to a mirror site or something?

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              MyKroFt
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              Can the save defaults also save which graph of the 4 for default as well?
              also can the left side numbers be shortened MB,GB,TB etc?

              Thanks for your work on bringing this plugin back from the dead!

              Myk

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              • jdillardJ
                jdillard
                last edited by

                @luckman212:

                @jdillard:

                Latest snapshots with Traffic Totals 0.5 is out now.

                where do we look to find this?  I am on 2.3.2.a.20160717.2316 and I still see only 0.4_1 … does it take time to roll out to a mirror site or something?

                Maybe try upgrading pfSense to the latest snapshot. I already had it installed on 2.3.2.a.20160715.0559 and was able to upgrade to 0.5. Sometimes if work is done to the package system it can mess with package upgrades showing up.

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                • jdillardJ
                  jdillard
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                  @MyKroFt:

                  Can the save defaults also save which graph of the 4 for default as well?

                  Oops forgot to test that part, I'll get that in 0.6.

                  @MyKroFt:

                  also can the left side numbers be shortened MB,GB,TB etc?

                  That is #6b on the TODO list. I have to figure out how to make a custom format for the axis ticks since it uses 1024, instead of 1000 for SI units.

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                  • luckman212L
                    luckman212 LAYER 8
                    last edited by

                    @jdillard:

                    Maybe try upgrading pfSense to the latest snapshot. I already had it installed on 2.3.2.a.20160715.0559 and was able to upgrade to 0.5. Sometimes if work is done to the package system it can mess with package upgrades showing up.

                    Oh I think I know why, because I'm on factory, not CE.  Maybe those take a little longer to show up.  I see CE 20160718-1342 is out but I don't want to switch to the CE track.  Did that once before and I wound up having to pave the box to get back on factory.

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                    • jdillardJ
                      jdillard
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                      ah yes, that is most likely the case. FWIW, 2.3.2 will be out pretty soon.

                      Also, during the snapshots phase packages are only revved when a new snapshot is built. In production, packages can be revved independently so it can rev more frequently.

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                        MyKroFt
                        last edited by

                        Any more updates?

                        Thanks
                        Myk

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                          athurdent
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                          This is a really nice package and it looks great, thanks jdillard!

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                            BabaBooey
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                            Yeah, thanks a bunch  :D

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                            • jdillardJ
                              jdillard
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for all the help and for being patient!

                              I'll try to continue to improve it (the known issues) over time.

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                                Cino
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                                @jdillard Just wanted to let you know that I upgraded to pfSense 2.3.2 today and installed the new Traffic Totals package. It picked up my current vnstat DB with no issues. Between this package and the vnStat Web Interface, I'm able to display a years worth of data if needed.

                                Btw great work on the new package!

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                                  topoldo
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                                  Two things make me to stay away from 2.3.x version until now, the most important being the lack of the possibility to receive by email the report of the daily activity of my pfSense bridge-firewall.
                                  Now, I went back from vacations, and I found this thread. This allow to me to try to re-test pfSense 2.3.x: many hanks to jdillard!
                                  Anyway, maybe I missed something, but my dumb question is now: "Does this package allow to send a daily mail with the graph report(s) of the activity of the interface(s) or it simply gives the opportunity to view 'online' the activity of a pfSense device along a large period of time?"

                                  Thanx,
                                  Topoldo

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                                    MyKroFt
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                                    It just to view web pages at the moment - but

                                    I installed the mailreport plugin and daily run following command:

                                    /usr/local/bin/vnstat -i re0 ; /usr/local/bin/vnstat -i re0 –exportdb

                                    you can run any vnstat options you want and multi commands by using ";" between them

                                    and they show up at exactly 12am/daily that I have it set for

                                    take a look at the mailreport plugin - i think it will do what you want/need

                                    Myk

                                    @topoldo:

                                    Two things make me to stay away from 2.3.x version until now, the most important being the lack of the possibility to receive by email the report of the daily activity of my pfSense bridge-firewall.
                                    Now, I went back from vacations, and I found this thread. This allow to me to try to re-test pfSense 2.3.x: many hanks to jdillard!
                                    Anyway, maybe I missed something, but my dumb question is now: "Does this package allow to send a daily mail with the graph report(s) of the activity of the interface(s) or it simply gives the opportunity to view 'online' the activity of a pfSense device along a large period of time?"

                                    Thanx,
                                    Topoldo

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                                      pwnell
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                                      Perhaps a very stupid question - but I am on 2.3.2-RELEASE (x64), and I have just installed Status_Traffic_Totals 1.1_1.  It works, however I do not see vnstat anywhere - it is not available in the Available Packages list, and it is not part of my cron jobs.  Hence no data is being gathered.

                                      I am to set up vnstat manually?

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                                        BabaBooey
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                                        Vnstat is included as far as I can tell. I didn't need to install any other packages, works fine here :)
                                        When you just installed it, you need to give it some time for it to gather the data.

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                                        • jdillardJ
                                          jdillard
                                          last edited by

                                          vnStat is a just package dependency, the package shows up in Status > Traffic Totals and you have enable graphing in there. You can also run vnStat commands from the command prompt if you want after that.

                                          Once you enable it, you should have:

                                          */5	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/local/bin/vnstat -u
                                          

                                          in your cron jobs (you might have to install the Cron package to see it)

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                                            pwnell
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                                            Aha now I see.  I had to first disable it, then enable it, and only then did it add the vnstat cron entry.  Before I explicitly disabled it and reenabled it, the crontab entry was not there.  After I initially installed the package, it was enabled by default.  Perhaps a small bug?

                                            Thanks!

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