Re: [Xen-users] How can I monitor each domU's bandwidth?

[Jan Marquardt <jm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rudi,

we are using snmpd, rrd, mrtg and routers2.cgi since one week and so far 
I can say that it is exactly doing what we need. If you are interested 
in detailed information do not hesitate to ask.
Regards,

Jan


Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I desperately need some help with this. We provide XEN VPS's to our
> clients in a hosting environment, and I need to measure the bandwidth
> usage per VPS, since we charge per MB / per GB for bandwidth.
>
> Someone suggested Cacti, and it works well, but every now and then it
> stops monitoring each VPS's bandwidth (for no apparent reason), and
> then I need to recreate the VPS's interface in Cacti - but this often
> means that we've lost a few days (and close to a few GB's) traffic.
>
> So, can someone please suggest something more reliable?
>
> Each VPS's interface is named as follows:
>
> vifkeit0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>           inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:833111 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1330716 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
>           RX bytes:1778333780 (1.6 GiB)  TX bytes:168951143 (161.1 MiB)
>
> vifplut0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>           inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:819054 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1390022 errors:0 dropped:82 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
>           RX bytes:512295207 (488.5 MiB)  TX bytes:408377761 (389.4 MiB)
>
> vifwise0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>           inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:689438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1098542 errors:0 dropped:1478 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
>           RX bytes:120582623 (114.9 MiB)  TX bytes:245914558 (234.5 MiB)
>
>
>
>
> With Cacti, I just use the names vifwise0, vifplut0, etc.
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