vnStat PHP Frontend - Install & Config Webinterface for vnStat
B. Dijkstra at SQWEEK.com has written a simple PHP web frontend for vnStat. The latest stable version is 1.3 and is available for download here
vnStat PHP Frontend requires
Apache Webserver (use Apache2.2.3 here)
PHP (use PHP5.2.0-8)
GD Image librariesvnStat already installed
Install and run vnStat as a Non-Root user
One of the advantages of vnStat is that it can be installed and run as a Non-Root user. This can be of a great help to query vnStat of scripts or allow operators to run the vnStat utility.
vnStat Network traffic/Bandwidth Monitoring for Linux
vnStat is a free OpenSource (GPL License) network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s) on the system. Unlike other Network Traffic monitors, vnStat analyzes the traffic information from the /proc filesystem. And, vnStat can be used even without root permissions.
vnStat maintains a database for every interface for which the network traffic analysed. We can watch the live Traffic status on the selected interface(s) or run reports on Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly bandwidth statics for the selected network interfaces.
Install & Configure Centreon Network Monitoring in Debian
It allows you to be more efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision information readable by a largest range of users. Indeed, a non technical user can now use the Centreon/Nagios couple to easily understand your network infrastructure thanks to charts and graphical representations of the gathered information. Skilled users still have access to specific and technical information collected by Nagios though.
Configure Centreon setup and database
We have now installed Centreon Network Monitoring pre-requisites, Nagios, Nagios Plugins & centreon binaries. The final part of this installation procedure is to configure the setup paramaters from the web interface.
If you jumped into this article then please have a look at the previous three steps of this four part installation procedure:
Install Centreon Network Monitoring binaries in Debian
After having installed the pre-requisites, Nagios & Nagios plugins, the next part of the installation of centreon Network monitoring solution involves the centreon binaries itself.
If you jumped into this article then please have a look at the previous three steps of this four part installation procedure:
Install pre-requisites for Centreon Network Monitoring in Debian
Step 1 of installing Centreon Network Monitoring system covers the installation of Pre-Requisites. Centreon Network Monitoring system has a pre-requisites that needs to be included before we actually start installing the centreon binaries.

