hightekhosting Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Dear all WHMCSer's/Webhosting Providers/Developers, We've been in the webhosting industry for quite some time now, and as time goes by, we've always been looking for new improved solutions for our clients. Once of the most major solutions we are seeking at the moment is Bandwidth Graphics/Traffic Monitoring. We are looking for a versatile solution that will enable our dedicated and colocation clients to monitoring their traffic usage, both in and out, in either a per mb or per gb graph. Basically, we want them to be able to access these usage pages via their Client Area, via something like a link that goes to http://theirserverip/mrtg/index.html or http://ourmrtgreportingserverip/ then they login with a username and password. Essentially, they don't need to know what speeds they are getting in/out on these graphs as their bandwidth/data usage is much more important so that they know when they are going to be charged overusage (if at all) Now one major problem exists where in some of the DC's we use, we do not know the routers that our equipment connects to, so I presume that puts a little bit of an issue into the equation. What I am after is a good solution, even suggestions as to what your all using, how hard the system is to implement and what may need to be changed etc in order for something of this nature to be working. We've been trying to play with Cacti, but it does not seem to report/graph what I want for our clients (unless I'm simply not doing something correctly with it?) We have a range of server types, from Linux (CentOS) servers to Windows Server 2003 servers. Some of these setups have control panels, some dont. We would also look at maybe implementing this solution for our VPS clients later down the track, but for now, its mainly dedicated and colocation clients we're interested in. We're happy to develop the WHMCS side and hopefully come up with a module/customisation that we can then further release onto other WHMCS users. I look forward to the suggestions of others Regards, Dale Evans Manager 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XN-Matt Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 We are looking for a versatile solution that will enable our dedicated and colocation clients to monitoring their traffic usage, both in and out, in either a per mb or per gb graph. Basically, we want them to be able to access these usage pages via their Client Area, via something like a link that goes to http://theirserverip/mrtg/index.html or http://ourmrtgreportingserverip/ then they login with a username and password. Essentially, they don't need to know what speeds they are getting in/out on these graphs as their bandwidth/data usage is much more important so that they know when they are going to be charged overusage (if at all) We have made our own system which is tied in with WHMCS. We pull the raw data from MRTG and run a few scripts. Not only does this present the customer with their graph but also the hourly usage for the last 24 hours, the daily usage for the last month, and the monthly usage for the last year. It checks a customfield in the WHMCS db and if they get near their limit - it pops them a nice email informing them. At the end of the month, if they have exceeded their limit - it raises an invoice automatically for any overage. Now one major problem exists where in some of the DC's we use, we do not know the routers that our equipment connects to, so I presume that puts a little bit of an issue into the equation. Yes. You wont be able to automatically monitor their usage at the switch - like you would normally. Either get your DC to give you a private switch with SNMP access or install SNMP on the servers but that is going to get messy and all depends on that service running. We've been trying to play with Cacti, but it does not seem to report/graph what I want for our clients (unless I'm simply not doing something correctly with it?) We use it internally on both switches and machines. It does to full port graphing at 95%ile and also total bandwidth. GBGraph maybe something you would like - it's nice but old and the site does not work half the time. M 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ServerTweak.com Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 We in the works having WHMCS working with Cacti, exporting to graphs to the client you set it too. should be done about a week from now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hightekhosting Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 We in the works having WHMCS working with Cacti, exporting to graphs to the client you set it too. should be done about a week from now Are you going to release/provide information of how to perform this "mod" once completed? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ServerTweak.com Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Are you going to release/provide information of how to perform this "mod" once completed? Yes, but this costing us a lot time from the Admin. $35 per hour rate so i may ask for a small fee if some of you don't mind. Small fee say $50 one time with support 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsonwebhosting Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Just checking in with you to see how much progress was made with this module that you were working on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbwebhosts Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Any update on the integration from Server Tweak. I'll gladly help him recoup his work if it is anything close to what ubersmith did. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWH1 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 XN-Matt or ServerTweak, are either of you selling this module yet? If so, please let me know how much. Thanks, Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataHosts Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I sent a PM a few weeks ago, and have yet to hear from either. I would say that this thread can be closed as it seems to be dead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsonwebhosting Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 That's a shame. I'm sure there were a few of us here that would have purchased too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWH1 Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I PM'd as well without response. I've requested this before directly from WHMCS, as have others, but so far doesn't seem to be interested in adding in a feature to tie into Cacti or RTG to do this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cafreamoroso Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 we really need this, maybe someone could come up with a quick fix, using the cpanel api, at least for some of us that have cpanel servers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWH1 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Bump back to the top to see if there is a solution for this yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNodashi Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 I'm also looking for a solution like this. We use Cacti to graph the traffic on our switches for dedicated servers, and also for VPS' so I'd be happy to make use of the cacti scripts, if someone would share it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 We use Cacti So enable the cacti export feature and add a custom field to yor serevr products to hold teh rra location - job done 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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