Howto: Vnstat with frontend on pfSense

[Perry]

Based on:
http://nixfloyd.blogspot.com/search?q=vnstat

Other links:
http://humdi.net/vnstat/
http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/index.php?p=1

Comment:
Since the GD image libraries ain't present in pfSense no graph will be shown.
It could be made as a package but a waste of time imo.

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Enable ssh access in pfsense gui
Use putty to login to server using root as username and press 8 for shell

pkg_add -r ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/vnstat-1.6_2.tbz

Exit

Press 5 to reboot

( Use putty to login to server using root as username and press 8 for shell )

type ifconfig to list the names of availible interfaces. In this case vlan0 (Wan) vlan1 (Lan) will be used

vnstat -u -i vlan0

vnstat -u -i vlan1

ee /cf/conf/config.xml

add following lines under

<minute>/5</minute>
                        <hour></hour>
                        <mday></mday>
                        <month></month>
                        <wday>*</wday>
                        <who>root</who>
                        <command></command>/usr/local/bin/vnstat -u

press ESC then A then A to save

fetch http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/files/vnstat_php_frontend-1.3.tar.gz

tar zxvf vnstat_php_frontend-1.3.tar.gz

mv vnstat_php_frontend-1.3 /usr/local/www/vnstat

ee /usr/local/www/vnstat/config.php

adjust the following lines to your preference:

$iface_list = array('vlan0', 'vlan1');
$iface_title['vlan0'] = 'WAN';
$iface_title['vlan1'] = 'LAN';
$vnstat_bin = '/usr/local/bin/vnstat';

press ESC then A then A to save

Exit

Press 5 to reboot

Goto http://192.168.1.1/vnstat to view ( Data will show after 5 min )