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      YannTKO
      last edited by

      Hello,
      I confirm that the hourly report shows more than 2 days (maybe 4).
      To return back to 24 hours, I edited (I know I shouldn't edit this file but it's a try) :
      /usr/local/etc/vnstat.conf

      to add:
      HourlyDays 1
      and I restarted the service .

      You can choose the data retention durations you need
      In the file vnstat.conf.sample, it's written:

      # data retention durations (-1 = unlimited, 0 = feature disabled)
      5MinuteHours   48
      HourlyDays      4
      DailyDays      62
      MonthlyMonths  25
      YearlyYears    -1
      TopDayEntries  20
      

      Yann

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        YannTKO
        last edited by

        Beware, when you change your settings in traffic totals by the webgui and you save them as defaults, the file vnstat.conf is written again and you loose your data retention durations selection you choosed by editing this file.
        If you want to keep your selection or your options, you must edit the file /usr/local/pkg/status_traffic_totals.inc
        This one is used to create vnstat.conf

        Yann.

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          House Of Cards
          last edited by

          I'm following along here... Just to clarify. Are the totals recording correctly and it's just a display issue? Are the daily and monthly totals accurate?

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            YannTKO @House Of Cards
            last edited by YannTKO

            @wormuths Yes, it's just a display issue. You can check your data with vnstat in the shell. If you decide to change the data retention durations, it will affect your data and not only the display.

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              mariyan
              last edited by

              @YannTKO, thank you very much for figuring a fix for those graphing issues.

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                MyKroFt
                last edited by

                Can anyone generate a system > patches files.

                I am afraid i will really mess something up if I try manually changing files

                Thanks
                Myk

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                  MyKroFt
                  last edited by

                  Nobody?

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                    hulleyrob @pwnell
                    last edited by

                    @pwnell Thank you this fixed my current problem where the hourly graph looked like the first image since I did a fresh install of 2.4.5

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                    • MikeV7896M
                      MikeV7896
                      last edited by

                      Yeah, if this is an issue, someone should write up a bug in Redmine (use the pfSense Packages section and the Status Traffic Totals category) and then update the package in Github so everyone can benefit from the change and easily apply a system patch in the meantime. Manually changing files works great until a file you changed is updated, then your change disappears. At least a system patch can be re-applied without re-editing the file.

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                        hulleyrob
                        last edited by

                        @pwnell said in Traffic Totals Hourly Report Problem:

                        value.time.hour

                        Just tried to create a pull request on GitHub what a mess that turned out to be. IF I have time later will try and do something in a non web version but that wasn't easy at all and it was a simple change to fix the hourly display on 2.4.5

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                          YannTKO @MikeV7896
                          last edited by

                          @virgiliomi said in Traffic Totals Hourly Report Problem:

                          Yeah, if this is an issue, someone should write up a bug in Redmine (use the pfSense Packages section and the Status Traffic Totals category) and then update the package in Github so everyone can benefit from the change and easily apply a system patch in the meantime. Manually changing files works great until a file you changed is updated, then your change disappears. At least a system patch can be re-applied without re-editing the file.

                          you can solve this issue by editing the file:
                          /usr/local/pkg/status_traffic_totals.inc

                          @YannTKO said in Traffic Totals Hourly Report Problem:

                          Beware, when you change your settings in traffic totals by the webgui and you save them as defaults, the file vnstat.conf is written again and you loose your data retention durations selection you choosed by editing this file.
                          If you want to keep your selection or your options, you must edit the file /usr/local/pkg/status_traffic_totals.inc
                          This one is used to create vnstat.conf

                          Yann.

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                            YannTKO @hulleyrob
                            last edited by

                            @hulleyrob said in Traffic Totals Hourly Report Problem:

                            @pwnell said in Traffic Totals Hourly Report Problem:

                            value.time.hour

                            Just tried to create a pull request on GitHub what a mess that turned out to be. IF I have time later will try and do something in a non web version but that wasn't easy at all and it was a simple change to fix the hourly display on 2.4.5

                            It has been already done :
                            redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10429

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                              Taz79
                              last edited by

                              I have the same issues too... First i thought i was the only one to have issues until i saw this thread :) .. I just installed it and then removed it again when it turned out it was not working properly..

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                                MyKroFt
                                last edited by

                                @YannTKO said in Traffic Totals Hourly Report Problem:

                                /usr/local/pkg/status_traffic_totals.inc

                                guess I am dumb and dont understand what to change in this file, any push in the right direction?

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                                  hulleyrob @MyKroFt
                                  last edited by

                                  @MyKroFt so you are happy to get to the file and edit it on the command line?

                                  I just open it with VI find "value.id" this and the first line that matched was the one in the post above by @pwnell

                                  "var date = Date.UTC(value.date.year, value.date.month-1, value.date.day, value.id);"

                                  then edit value.id to value.time.hour

                                  This fixed the hourly graphs for me which is all I was interested in. Save then quit and refresh the page job done.

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                                    YannTKO
                                    last edited by YannTKO

                                    Editing /usr/local/pkg/status_traffic_totals.inc is just to keep data retention choice.
                                    Editing status_traffic_totals.php is to solve the hourly/10 days graphical issues.
                                    Yann.

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                                      hulleyrob @YannTKO
                                      last edited by

                                      @YannTKO sorry you are correct it was the PHP file I edited, early morning here coffee not kicked in yet.

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                                        MyKroFt
                                        last edited by

                                        thank you, knowing it was the .php instead of .inc made sense and was able to edit the file

                                        thanks

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                                          NinthWave @YannTKO
                                          last edited by

                                          @yanntko said in Traffic Totals Hourly Report Problem:

                                          Editing /usr/local/pkg/status_traffic_totals.inc is just to keep data retention choice.
                                          Editing status_traffic_totals.php is to solve the hourly/10 days graphical issues.
                                          Yann.

                                          Thank you for pointing me here.

                                          This thread as started in July and and the problem is stil pending ?

                                          I am in /user/local/pkg but there is no file status_traffic_totals.php

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                                          • johnpozJ
                                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @NinthWave
                                            last edited by johnpoz

                                            huh.. The file you want to edit is

                                            [2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/usr/local/www: ls status_traffic_totals.php 
                                            status_traffic_totals.php
                                            [2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/usr/local/www: 
                                            

                                            This looks like it was fixed back in nov
                                            https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/dcb4949cc70f78006d05c662aa81c5849f93d4c0#diff-cbd6e5b8cd0fd83476715c17fdb47eec98bd0b54a6426f7dc7cfaeea141f7a4c

                                            But shows that it should be 2.3.2, but that is not what is being pulled down - only 2.3.1_1

                                            Without looking deeper - my guess would be that 2.3.2 is for 2.5 and not 2.4.5.. I fixed it with simple edit.. So I haven't really spent much time looking..

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