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.

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