UH-Matt Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Shame as I got this response on their youtube today: It is maintained and works with WHMCS 5, though, depending on what admin template you are using, may require some tweaking. But it's not hard and our support will walk you through it or do it for you, however you prefer. We haven't done a major release in a while, because this project has taken a much broader scope since we released this. But we do release bug fixes and minor feature requests, as needed. Are you still using it Matt? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XN-Matt Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Oh! We used it for a little while. Updates never came and there were a few bugs such as completely wrong calculations for bandwidth (1000 vs 1024). After submitting a few tickets, we got a reply saying they didn't have any time to continue and they were looking for someone to take it over. We ended up trying another but updates seemed to stall on that (without any progress for over a year) and decided you really need to build you own to ensure it does what you want, which is what we did. Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UH-Matt Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 This is what I suspected. Seems there is plenty of shared code around these forums to roll something decent as a starting point at least. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9DollarDomains Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Our cacti/whmcs bridge has been available for months if you're still looking for a solution ...Hello. I'm interested in your CactiBridge. I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate thread to answer in or not, so if it isn't, this can be moved over to any other thread. We use a WHMCS installation for our Hosting/Domains of course, but we also have a second installation which we use just for the Customer Management and Trouble Ticket system for our WISP/ISP side of the business. Right now, the two installations are separate - because for our WISP/ISP business we have the billing information in an older program and it's ''not broken, don't fix'' type of thing for right now. I understand that your CactiBridge is designed to manage dedicated servers, but each of our customer's CPE's has a static internal IP, and can be graphed via SNMP in our Cacti Server, and we've been wanting to have usage based billing. We have purchased the RADIUS module, but I'm not sure that's appropriate for our needs either. As mentioned above, the billing for our WISP clients is currently done in a older separate program, but long term, we do want to integrate the billing into WHMCS. So, would it be possible to use your CactiBridge for this purpose? Each CPE has a static IP and SNMP, and we'd love to be able to go to a client account and have a 'CPE Server Module' and tell it their CPE address is '10.1.2.3', and to have it create the CACTI graphs and collect data usage stats from that. I look forward to hearing your comments. - ToddC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 If it can be graphed in cacti, then it can be added to WHMCS to show the graphing, and overage billing is possible (using WHMCS standard setup) although actual *usage* billing isint something WHMCS supports as yet How you do things depends very much on exactly what you're expecting to achieve ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9DollarDomains Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 OK - that sounds interesting. Currently we use an old Radius and and old billing program for our WISP/ISP business, and we only use WHMCS to bill our Domain/Hosting business. We also use WHMCS for our Customer Support / Trouble Tickets - so while we don't NEED to integrate the two billings, we certainly would like to, so it sounds like either getting WHMCS working with RADIUS or with your CactiBridge could accomplish that for us. For WISP/ISP billing, usage-based-biking is the preferred model - where a client pays $X per month and get X GB of 'on-peak usage' and another X GB of 'off-peak usage' - and the overdata rates are different for on-peak and off-peak periods. So, for example the 'peak' period may be daytime (8 AM till Midnight) and then the 'off-peak' period may be midnight till 8AM, and the typical WISP plans will be something like: PlanA = $29 / month = 10 GB peak + $2.00/GB overdata & 15 GB off-peak + .50/GB overdata PlanB = $39 / month = 20 GB peak + $1.50/GB overdata & 25 GB off-peak + .25/GB overdata PlanC = $49 / month = 30 GB peak + $1.00/GB overdata & UNLIMITED off-peak (+ $0 overdata) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 It's not going to do that "out of the box" unfortuanetly, WHMCS only supports 1 overage type/value per product, it *might* be possible to fake it with bundles and a on-peak product and an off-peak product but that'll be a nightmare to manage. Then there's the question about graphine/isolating what's peak and what's not IMHO you'd be better having the existing system manage/track/update it all, and just extract those figures for billable items into WHMCS - client number dependant of course, if it's for thousands of clients, then the dev-cost may be worthwhile 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9DollarDomains Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Yes, we are probably better using a WISP specific program for billing. We love WHMCS for our hosting/domains, so we are kinda trying really hard to see if it's up to the task of the WISP business, but there are LOTS of holes in WHMCS for this use, which is unfortunate. It would seem that if they made WHMCS more 'WISP Friendly' then more WISP's would use it, which would make it more attractive to other WISPs - and it would snowball. So, we are trying to get some of the fundamentals working, and we can hopefully attract some of our WISP brothers. Having only one type of overage isn't fatal - many WISP's have plans that are like this... Plan = $39 / month = 20 GB/month + $2/GB overdata Especially with NetFlix now, having a method of encouraging people to do some of there data usage at 3AM instead of at 7PM is also important, and a lower cost or a free overnight period is fairly important - however, that's not fatal. X/GB per month and $X/GB overage is better than not having usage-based-billing at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch.dhl Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Just found this option and we are interested in testing it. Is there anything new/equlivant to it on the market now. Basically we want to be able to pull NetFlow data from our routers into WHMCS for bandwidth monitoring/management. Most of our servers are our own, but there is the occasional dedicated/VPS customer which we would like to add overage charges to as well. What solutions is everyone using in 2012? Cheers, Mitch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daruosha Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Our cacti/whmcs bridge has been available for months if you're still looking for a solution ... Rob, Is there any more info or screenshot about the Mod? We're looking for a stable and reliable solution. I'd appreciate if you can provide us some more details and screen shots. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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