WHMCS Dedicated Server Bandwidth

[murmaiderz]

Hi,

 

Busy playing around with whmcs and I am a bit confused regarding the dedicated server bandwidth and bandwidth overage.

 

I understand that under the Product -> Other tab I setup the Overage Softlimit and cost.

I also understand that I would need to feed the actual bandwidth usage into the whmcs database.

 

My main question is where is the Softlimit and current bandwidth usage actually displayed in the Admin and Client areas for a specific dedicated server? I can't seem to find the figures anywhere.

[othellotech]

First you need to "get" the servers BW usage into WHMCS - something like a cacti module

[murmaiderz]

Hi Rob,

 

As mentioned, getting the BW usage isn't an issue, we already doing that with scripts into rtg (which i find it faster, more robust, lighter and more granular than cacti). So the usage isn't a problem.

 

I just can't find where the usage is actually displayed in the Admin / Client Area or any documentation explaining how exactly to import the BW usage (API, what mysql tables, etc?)

Edited February 24, 2012 by murmaiderz

[Max_nl]

I just can't find where the usage is actually displayed in the Admin / Client Area or any documentation explaining how exactly to import the BW usage (API, what mysql tables, etc?)

 

You need to create a module that implements the usageUpdate function.

You can then see the usage as an admin under "Reports" -> "Disk Usage Summary"

 

 

- There is no default support for the client to view the figures, unless you implement it yourself. e.g. with the ClientArea function in your module.

 

- WHMCS always writes megabytes on the invoice. If you think a different billing unit may be more appropriate for dedicated servers in 2012, let the WHMCS team know.

Perhaps if they get bugged enough by different people (other than just me always complaining ), they might implement it.

[basic]

murmaiderz wrote:

>> we already doing that with scripts into rtg (which i find it faster, more robust, lighter

>> and more granular than cacti)

 

It has been two years that we installed Cacti for our dedicated servers ... and RTG is one of the scripts that it needs. We needed Cacti because it does more than RTG alone, it e.g. applies the 95% rule, which is what is usually done for bandwidth calculations of dedicated servers. Are you indeed speaking about servers here, or just hosting accounts??

In any case, if you find a good solution of how to implement this into WHMCS, I would appreciate you post it here. Thanks.

 

John

[Gibby13]

I am interested in this also, I have created a script that grabs the bandwidth allowed from the configuration option of the VPS, it then grabs how much bandwidth they have used. I now just need to put that data in the WHMCS database, but how to make it display for the admin area and client area would be great.

[wsd]

Maybe it's me who has misunderstood something

 

But what I understand from what I read so be it traffic is meant and not bandwidth. :arrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_(computing)

[wsd]

When I bought Configurable Package Addon with WHMCS, I read that this could control the bandwidth, and that I could use, but it was not the bandwidth that could be controlled it is used traffic, and since this is apparently valid in countries that are English language the bandwidth used to describe used traffic what so called bandwidth example a router has a maximum of 1Gbit ????

 

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[othellotech]

Bandwidth gets used incorrectly for Transfer because (historically) one particular control-panel employed an idiot who didn't understand the units of measure, then every reseller and bedroom-host started using the wrong term and it's simply propagated from there

 

Still annoys me to this day ...