VnStat errors

[joecr]

I have recently installed vnstat on my pfSense box, but I don't seem to be able to get it to work, as I always get the following error.

Notice: Undefined index:  totalrx in /usr/local/www/vnstat/index.php on line 77

Notice: Undefined index:  totalrxk in /usr/local/www/vnstat/index.php on line 77

Notice: Undefined index:  totaltx in /usr/local/www/vnstat/index.php on line 78

Notice: Undefined index:  totaltxk in /usr/local/www/vnstat/index.php on line 78

I have tried waiting for over 30 minutes, which is longer than indicated in the following thread.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,19712.0.html

I know I have had traffic on all but one of the four NICs as one of them is now disabled.

I just noticed that the site defaults to "Traffic data for Wireless_NIC (ath0)" which happens to be the network card that is deactivated.

I have deleted "ath0" & ".ath0" in the "/var/db/vnstat" folder, as suggested in the following thread, but it still lists the network card & gives me the above error.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,14179.0.html

I then waited for over five minutes in the hopes that it would sort itself out, but it still lists all 4 cards & it still has the error I mentioned earlier.

I also noticed that the files in the folder "/var/db/vnstat" are all owned by root:wheel. I don't know if that is an issue or not but I thought I'd mention it as I've seen other issues that were mentioned that were related to file ownership.

Version 1.2.3-RELEASE
built on Sun Dec 6 23:21:36 EST 2009
Platform pfSense

Installed packages
Backup 0.1.7
Cron 0.2
Fit123 1.0
Lightsquid 1.7.1
bandwidthd 2.0.1.2
phpSysInfo 2.5.4
squid 2.7.8_1
vnstat 1.6.3

If you need more info just ask as I don't know why this is happening or if it is something that I did wrong.

[Perry]

The is some commands from console you can try like
vnstat -u
for update
vnstat -tr -i "real_nic_name"
for 5 sec live traffic

[joecr]

Coming at it after sleeping I went to view the source, then I noticed the hyperlinks. So I can see stats for the other NICs, but I still see the NIC that does not have the enable option checked.

I assume that the "vnstat -u" isn't supposed to give any output, because I didn't see anything from that command.

Here are the other commands I ran along with the result they gave me.

$ vnstat -tr -i "em0"
Sampling em0 (5 seconds average)...                                   13 packets sampled in 5 seconds
Traffic average for em0
      rx           0.19 kB/s              1 packets/s
      tx           0.22 kB/s              1 packets/s

$ vnstat -tr -i "em1"
Sampling em1 (5 seconds average)...                                   5 packets sampled in 5 seconds
Traffic average for em1
      rx           0.06 kB/s              0 packets/s
      tx           0.01 kB/s              0 packets/s

$ vnstat -tr -i "vr0"
Sampling vr0 (5 seconds average)...                                   6 packets sampled in 5 seconds
Traffic average for vr0
      rx           0.05 kB/s              0 packets/s
      tx           0.02 kB/s              0 packets/s

$ vnstat -tr -i "ath0"
Sampling ath0 (5 seconds average)...                                    0 packets sampled in 5 seconds
Traffic average for ath0
      rx           0.00 kB/s              0 packets/s
      tx           0.00 kB/s              0 packets/s

I did some searching online & I found the idea of using "isset()" as a way to prevent the errors from showing up. I've included an example. I haven't tested it yet but that could get rid of the error for everyone, which I think would be nice.

	if (!isset($summary['totalrx']) && !isset($summary['totalrxk']) && !isset($summary['totaltx']) && !isset($summary['totaltxk'])){
		$trx = $summary['totalrx']*1024+$summary['totalrxk'];
		$ttx = $summary['totaltx']*1024+$summary['totaltxk'];
	}

[Perry]

Coming at it after sleeping I went to view the source, then I noticed the hyperlinks. So I can see stats for the other NICs, but I still see the NIC that does not have the enable option checked.

If you do not plan to enable it then you can remove it from /usr/local/www/vnstat/config.php ,though it seems unusual to assign a nic and not enable it.

[joecr]

I wasn't the one to install the wireless NIC without an antenna & management doesn't seem to want to get some so that we can use that instead of the router we now use for our wireless connections. I guess in this case I could just un-assign it.

I have to admit it but I am somewhat new at using pfSense.

Edit 2010-05-14

Well after un-assigning it & then uninstalling & re-installing vnStat the error went away. I still think you might want to look at the code I gave you as it could remove the error for anyone else when they first install vnStat on to their box.