New Traffic Totals package available for testing

jdillard

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.

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.

luckman212

@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.

jdillard

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.

MyKroFt

Any more updates?

Thanks
Myk

athurdent

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

BabaBooey

Yeah, thanks a bunch :D

jdillard

Thanks for all the help and for being patient!

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

Cino

@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!

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

MyKroFt

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

pwnell

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?

BabaBooey

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.

jdillard

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)

pwnell

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!

jdillard

Did you have vnStat already installed before you messed with the Traffic Totals package?

pwnell

Quite possible as I had vnstat2 installed, then upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 before, which dropped support for vnstat2. I never cleaned it out manually.

johnpoz

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..?

jdillard

@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.

johnpoz

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

maverick_slo

Hello!

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

Thanks!