Report of network traffic by email

jopeme

Is there a package that reports network traffic and send them by email? I have installed ntopng 3.0 but i don't find this option.Lightsquid does not have this option. I use squid + squidguard + captive portal and i have several vlans configured on my pfsense 2.4

Thanks.

highc

You can do this with vnstat (the Status_Traffic_Totals package) and the mailreport package.

Install both, get vnstat going, and then under Status -> Email reports add a line that will mail you regularly (e.g., daily at midnight) the output of the commands

/usr/local/bin/vnstat -i pppoe0; /usr/local/bin/vnstat -i pppoe0 -h

which in this case would be the statistics for the pppoe0 interface.

For mailreport to work, you need to have setup System -> Advanced -> Notifications (the SMTP part there).

occamsrazor

Old thread but wanted to say thanks, this is very useful. In case anyone wonders, this is a sample output of what you see in the email:

Current report: Daily vnstst interface statistics for PPPoE

Command output: Daily interface statistics (/usr/local/bin/vnstat -i pppoe0; /usr/local/bin/vnstat -i pppoe0 -h)
Database updated: Mon Sep 24 18:55:00 2018

   WAN (pppoe0) since 09/24/18

          rx:  2.98 MiB      tx:  1.85 MiB      total:  4.83 MiB

   monthly
                     rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
       Sep '18      2.98 MiB |    1.85 MiB |    4.83 MiB |    0.02 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated         2 MiB |       1 MiB |       3 MiB |

   daily
                     rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
         today      2.98 MiB |    1.85 MiB |    4.83 MiB |    0.58 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated         2 MiB |       1 MiB |       3 MiB |
 WAN (pppoe0)                                                             18:55
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 -+--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
  |  19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

 h  rx (KiB)   tx (KiB)      h  rx (KiB)   tx (KiB)      h  rx (KiB)   tx (KiB)
19          0          0    03          0          0    11          0          0
20          0          0    04          0          0    12          0          0
21          0          0    05          0          0    13          0          0
22          0          0    06          0          0    14          0          0
23          0          0    07          0          0    15          0          0
00          0          0    08          0          0    16          0          0
01          0          0    09          0          0    17          0          0
02          0          0    10          0          0    18       3049       1894

johnpoz

Bluestacks is a app player to run android stuff on PCs and Mac - WTF could that have to do with having an email email you bandwidth use?

NogBadTheBad

@highc said in Report of network traffic by email:

You can do this with vnstat (the Status_Traffic_Totals package) and the mailreport package.

Install both, get vnstat going, and then under Status -> Email reports add a line that will mail you regularly (e.g., daily at midnight) the output of the commands
/usr/local/bin/vnstat -i pppoe0; /usr/local/bin/vnstat -i pppoe0 -h
which in this case would be the statistics for the pppoe0 interface.

For mailreport to work, you need to have setup System -> Advanced -> Notifications (the SMTP part there).

Better still create a shell script and run it with what ever options you want:-

[2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@pfsense] /root/scripts: more vnstat-daily
#!/bin/csh
foreach int ( igb0.2 igb0.3 igb0.4 igb0.5 igb0.6 igb0.7 enc0 pppoe0 )
echo
/usr/local/bin/vnstat -i $int -h
echo
end