vnStat PHP Frontend - Install & Config Webinterface for vnStat

March 17, 2008 · Filed Under vnStat Bandwidth Monitoring · Comment 


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

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Install and run vnStat as a Non-Root user

March 17, 2008 · Filed Under vnStat Bandwidth Monitoring · Comment 


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.

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vnStat Network traffic/Bandwidth Monitoring for Linux

March 16, 2008 · Filed Under vnStat Bandwidth Monitoring · Comment 


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.

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