On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Sure, that's for XEN, but it's not very effective. I need graph the traffic for each VM, not the vif - the vifs tend to change on a reboot, and also reset with the stats.
How can I graph the traffic over a perioud of time, for any given IP address?
Cacti works well, for switches & routers, but I can't get Cacti to graph an individual VM on the server.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org mailto:mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi all Can someone please tell me how to monitor each VM's traffic on a CentOS 5.2 server, running either Xen or OpenVZ? I need to bill my users for the traffic they use, and would like to have a traffic usage graph for each Xen / OpenVZ Virtual Machine on the server.if you look at how xen sets up the Vif interfaces, you will note that its quite trivial. just watch the vif as you would an eth interface.
You've been on the list long enough to consider trimming your posts and not top posting.
also, you seem confused about what a virtual interface is. take a look at virsh and see how you can bring up and take down a xen domu while getting info on what interfaces its using and how.
Yes, but that's not going to help me. Sure, I can SSH into the server and see the usage with ifconfig, or virsh as you say - but I can't allow clients to login into the main server.
I need a way for a client to login to a PHP / MySQL based sytem, which can show them traffic graphs for their VPS's, and OpenVZ works different from Xen, so I can't even rely on the Xen stuff.
I'm looking for something similar to Cacti / MRTG - but something that can graph traffic for each IP / VM on a server