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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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      So I on accident deleted the vnstat cron job.  Not I can seem to get it back..  I have reinstalled the package, I have deleted the package and then reinstalled.  No cron.  I have disabled the cumulative graphing and then re-enabled it.. Nothing.  Reset all graph data.. Just not seem to put this cron job back in??

      I can manually put back, but shouldn't a reinstall of the package check that the cron is there.  Or a turn off and back on of the cumulative put it back, etc..?

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      • jdillardJ
        jdillard
        last edited by

        @johnpoz:

        I can manually put back, but shouldn't a reinstall of the package check that the cron is there.  Or a turn off and back on of the cumulative put it back, etc..?

        It should, that's odd behavior that it won't add a cron on re-install. I'll have to look into it, it's related to #14 on the known issues list.

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
          last edited by

          Well I can leave it as and see if it shows up when new version comes out, etc.

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            maverick_slo
            last edited by

            Hello!

            Are any updates planned to make it to release that will happen soon?
            Like correct iface names :) ?

            Thanks!

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              drathus
              last edited by

              @jdillard:

              #9a) NanoBSD image is untested at this time, but should work. Data loss after a reboot needs to also be tested (actually, I may be able to tie the data into backups).

              Running on a modified Firebox, and I can confirm that it works on a nanoBSD image. However, yes, it's losing all data on reboot.

              Edit: punctuation

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              • jdillardJ
                jdillard
                last edited by

                @maverick_slo:

                Hello!

                Are any updates planned to make it to release that will happen soon?
                Like correct iface names :) ?

                Thanks!

                I've been tied up with a roll out, but hope to have more time soon to get some fixes/features in.

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                • jdillardJ
                  jdillard
                  last edited by

                  @drathus:

                  @jdillard:

                  #9a) NanoBSD image is untested at this time, but should work. Data loss after a reboot needs to also be tested (actually, I may be able to tie the data into backups).

                  Running on a modified Firebox, and I can confirm that it works on a nanoBSD image. However, yes, it's losing all data on reboot.

                  Edit: punctuation

                  Thanks for confirming! I plan to mimic what is done for the RRD graphs as fas as data retention goes, but I'm not sure how involved that is quite yet.

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                    drathus
                    last edited by

                    @jdillard:

                    Thanks for confirming! I plan to mimic what is done for the RRD graphs as fas as data retention goes, but I'm not sure how involved that is quite yet.

                    How would you recommend manually backing up the vnstat database & configuration settings so if I do have to reboot my pfsense box I don't lose my historic data?

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                      baggar11
                      last edited by

                      I've noticed that there isn't a proper separation of totals for openvpn clients. I have 2 clients and they both show the same totals as WAN. Openvpn server does seem to have its own totals though. Does traffic totals have a limitation in this regard?

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                        gadean
                        last edited by

                        @drathus i've "solved" this with two scripts and cron - it's not the best solution but it works

                        #!/bin/sh
                        
                        if [ -d "/var/db/vnstat" ]; then
                          cd / && tar -czf /cf/conf/vnstat.tgz /var/db/vnstat/*
                        fi
                        
                        
                        #!/bin/sh
                        
                        if [ -d "/var/db" ]; then
                          cd / && tar -xzf /cf/conf/vnstat.tgz
                        fi
                        
                        
                        0       */1     *       *       *       root    /etc/rc.backup_vnstat.sh
                        @reboot                                 root    /etc/rc.restore_vnstat.sh
                        
                        
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                          TomT
                          last edited by

                          Hi

                          Where do I get this to try ?
                          I don't see it in my packages

                          Thanks

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                            gadean
                            last edited by

                            The package name is "Status_Traffic_Totals".

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                              infernoman
                              last edited by

                              Is there any way to get this to enable by default? every time the machine is restarted it seems to stop the logging. and delete any trace of the logs.

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                                gadean
                                last edited by

                                Are you using the ram disk? then you could try this on: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=114753.msg664804#msg664804

                                Under "Status" / "Traffic Totals" click on "Display Advanced" -> "Enable Graphing" and "Save as Default"

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                                  chrcoluk
                                  last edited by

                                  why not just use the drive pfsense is installed on? my pfsense is installed on a 60 gig ssd, plenty of space for storing this sort of data :)

                                  pfSense CE 2.8.0

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                                    pfSenpai
                                    last edited by

                                    @jdillard:

                                    Known issues:

                                    #1) There is an issue with the stacked bar graph. Documented here: https://github.com/novus/nvd3/issues/341#issuecomment-222370991

                                    I believe I may have found another bug that only occurs with the stacked bar graph. I have been collecting data for a couple of days now and all totals look fine except with stacked bars (see image): for some reason the (rx) values are displayed as KiB instead of GiB and the resulting higher values seem to hit a type related cap and show up as negatives .

                                    This is from a pfSense 2.3.2 (latest) on an ALIX APU.1D4.

                                    Edit: This only occurs with inverse mode on. Btw. would it be possible to save defaults for Hourly and Daily etc. separately?

                                    Status_Traffic_Totals-Stacked-Bars.PNG
                                    Status_Traffic_Totals-Stacked-Bars.PNG_thumb

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                                      chrcoluk
                                      last edited by

                                      I observed on my pfSense box that openvpn traffic is been reported the same as WAN traffic.  To me this isnt a big deal as I only care about monitoring my WAN usage, but I am reporting here.  It is not exactly the same as in 1:1 but is very close to the WAN figures.

                                      The only actual traffic on my openvpn (since I still am only testing it on pfSense) is an idle ssh session to one server.

                                      pfSense CE 2.8.0

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                                        chrcoluk
                                        last edited by

                                        A word of warning, this package and its data is not backed up when using the pfsense backup wizard, I have just migrated to zfs, and pretty much everything is intact except this plugin was missing and I have had to set it up again.

                                        pfSense CE 2.8.0

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                                          maverick_slo
                                          last edited by

                                          Read this and same here.
                                          Did it yesterday, this is the only thing missing.

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                                            BabaBooey
                                            last edited by

                                            It suddenly stopped working, I get this error: Error: {"vnstatversion":"1.14","jsonversion":"1","interfaces":[Error: Database load failed even when using backup (No such file or directory). Aborting.
                                            What to do? I haven't changed anything.

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