[CentOS-virt] how to monitor each VM's traffic?
rudiahlers at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 13:49:20 UTC 2008
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Sure, that's for XEN, but it's not very effective. I need graph the
>> traffic for each VM, not the vif - the vifs tend to change on a reboot,
>> and also reset with the stats.
>> How can I graph the traffic over a perioud of time, for any given IP
>> Cacti works well, for switches & routers, but I can't get Cacti to graph
>> an individual VM on the server.
>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org
>> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>> wrote:
>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Hi all
>> Can someone please tell me how to monitor each VM's traffic on a
>> 5.2 server, running either Xen or OpenVZ? I need to bill my
>> users for
>> the traffic they use, and would like to have a traffic usage
>> graph for
>> each Xen / OpenVZ Virtual Machine on the server.
>> if you look at how xen sets up the Vif interfaces, you will note
>> that its quite trivial. just watch the vif as you would an eth
> You've been on the list long enough to consider trimming your posts and not
> top posting.
> also, you seem confused about what a virtual interface is. take a look at
> virsh and see how you can bring up and take down a xen domu while getting
> info on what interfaces its using and how.
Yes, but that's not going to help me. Sure, I can SSH into the server and
see the usage with ifconfig, or virsh as you say - but I can't allow clients
to login into the main server.
I need a way for a client to login to a PHP / MySQL based sytem, which can
show them traffic graphs for their VPS's, and OpenVZ works different from
Xen, so I can't even rely on the Xen stuff.
I'm looking for something similar to Cacti / MRTG - but something that can
graph traffic for each IP / VM on a server
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