Re: Bandwidth Usage Billing

From: Jacob S. Barrett (jbarrett_at_amduat.net)
Date: 06/11/04

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:21:47 -0700

    On Friday 11 June 2004 08:08 am, Max Clark <maxc@beast.clarksys.com> wrote:
    > MRTG is the defacto snmp bandwidth monitoring tool, however it does not
    > track total GB transfered and the 95th percentile without external
    > hacks, and even with this, your data will be truncated rather quickly.

    You can configure MRTG or any other RRD based system to keep higher resolution
    data longer. We keep the 5 second data for 3 months. After that I think it
    goes into 20 minute averages that are kept for a year, then daily averages
    for 5 years. The RRD files will be a lot larger, but a lot more accurate for
    billing purposes.

    > How does one set up a bandwidth billing system (are there systems
    > already out there for this) to track their customer's usage?

    We just us a simple perl script to sum up the RRD data at the end of the
    billing cycle. We also have some PHP pages for customers to monitor their
    usage over the month.

    Another company I know uses cricket to dump the data into a SQL database as
    well as RRD. They use the RRD for graphing and the SQL for billing. 

    -- 
Jacob S. Barrett
jbarrett@amduat.net
www.amduat.net
"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."
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