New Traffic Totals package available for testing

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!

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

jdillard

@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.

jdillard

@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.

drathus

@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?

baggar11

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?

gadean

@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