Bandwidth from the Command Line

[878shelby]

Just wondering if there is a way to grab the overall monthly bandwidth via the command line. I have a few servers and hate logging into WHM to get the bandwidth totals as its pretty time consuming. If there is an easy way to gather the information you would be helping me out a lot. Thanks in advance.

[picoleto]

No clue, but let me know

[878shelby]

Bump, no one?

[xerophyte]

the data stored in here /var/cpanel/bandwidth

i am not aware of script which report the total bandwidth but you can write script to find out

[Wicked]

Are you looking for total server BW or just the BW of what Cpanel uses? The command that was already given is the same that WHM shows I believe.

This however is not accurate for the actual server BW. In many cases it is not even close. I have a server that has logged more than 300GB in a month and WHM tells me that there was only 90GB used.

So if you have a dedicated in a data center and you want true BW being used Cpanel/WHM is not the place to look for it.

[878shelby]

I came across the /var/cpanel/bandwidth file but it didn't match anything that I had in WHM. Anyone have some other suggestions? Has to have a small memory footprint as well. I was thinking vnstat, but is there anything else you guys know of?

[878shelby]

bump. Anyone else have any ideas?

[bazzi]

bwreport is a simple perl script that you can use, simpley let it run with a cron...


# INSTALLATION
# 1) Copy the script somewhere in your server (for example /root) this way:
# cd /root (or cd /home/username)
# wget http://html.conclase.net/cp/scripts/bwreport.perl.txt
# 2) chown youruser.youruser bwreport.perl.txt
# 3) chmod 0700 bwreport.perl.txt
# 4) mv bwreport.perl.txt bwreport.pl
# 5) Optionally, customize your settings, see below
# 6) Add the script to your crontab

[878shelby]

bazzi, that is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks a ton.