Bandwidthd for NethServer 7

davidep · August 2, 2016, 2:13pm

NethServer comes with ntopng, but has some limitations: only few hours of history are available, large amounts of disk space are allocated.

During the past days I did some experiments with pmacct but I couldn’t find a suitable UI.

Bandwidthd is an old network monitoring tool, which is no longer maintained and has recently exited the Fedora/EPEL project, too! But it’s widely adopted among my customers on legacy appliances.

I compiled a brand new version of bandwidthd with SQLite support, to overcome its memory usage limitations.

Source code and patches are available from:

A new RPM from @giacomo is available from nethserver-testing:
http://packages.nethesis.it/nethserver/7.2.1511/testing/x86_64/Packages/bandwidthd-2.0.1-33.13.g21a0032.ns7.x86_64.rpm

GG_jr · August 2, 2016, 3:12pm

Just download and “yum install …”?
Of course without Ntop installed.

davidep · August 2, 2016, 3:35pm

Then

systemctl enable bandwidthd
systemctl start bandwidthd
have a coffee
SSH-forward port 80 to your localhost:8080,
then point your browser to http://localhost:8080/bandwidthd

I think they could run together

giacomo · August 3, 2016, 12:32pm

You can try now the fully-integrated package:

yum --enablerepo=nethserver-testing install nethserver-bandwidthd

Bandwidthd and Ntop can run together, but be aware of the higher CPU load!.

GG_jr · August 3, 2016, 12:51pm

It works!

With little issues:

when you want to open from Applications, the new window is with the Dashboard.
the icons for “Send” and for “Receive”?

EDIT:

I got it!
The “icons” should be graphics! Probably will appear later.

giacomo · August 3, 2016, 12:59pm

What a beta tester ! Thanks and … fixed!
Try updating the packages

yum --enablerepo=nethserver-testing clean all
yum --enablerepo=nethserver-testing update nethserver-bandwidthd

Yes, php-gd dependency was missing

GG_jr · August 3, 2016, 1:04pm

Done!

EDIT:

Next step: Available in Software center?

davidep · August 3, 2016, 2:28pm

Packages are ready for testing:

alefattorini · August 4, 2016, 4:13pm

I’d love to hear what these guys think: @Dan_Kennedy @clinton @Lewis @jackyes @todd_firkins @Nas @medworthy @thiagotw @Hunv @jgjimenezs @jfranco

Hunv · August 4, 2016, 4:46pm

That looks AWESOME!
For every administrator it is so helpful!
Very good!

clinton · August 4, 2016, 6:10pm

I have to confess, i run a few pfsense boxes and they did away with ntop a whileback for the same reason. I really prefer bandwidthd.

I give it a fill 100 out of 10.

Regards clint

thiagotw · August 4, 2016, 9:34pm

I’m used to ntopng for reports with its nice graphical interface, i just print and send to the directors, but i agreed its miss a long time info, thats why i use with pfsense internal monitor was a plus

eliezer.axiem · August 9, 2016, 10:18am

Is there any option to have this in 6.8?

Lewis · August 16, 2016, 6:17am

@alefattorini @GG_jr @giacomo @davidep From what I have seen and read this seems to be what I have been looking for since I started using Nethserver and joined the group. I am still running NS 6.8, scared of upgrading to 7 on a live and working system. Will the above work on 6.8?

GG_jr · August 16, 2016, 6:28am

Hi Lewis,

AFAIK, it’s only for NS7.
I don’t know if will be available also for NS6.8.

BR,
Gabriel

davidep · August 22, 2016, 9:18am

On my side there are no plans of backporting the nethserver-bandwidthd integration from ns7 at the moment.

However, I built successfully the bandwidthd RPM for ns6. I think you could do the same and upload the RPM to NethForge 6. Once installed, the configuration is simple and can be achieved manually on any CentOS system.

pratsx · February 23, 2018, 11:27am

I have been through a few of the ntopng and Bandwidthd discussion threads on the forum.

I apologize upfront, for posting to such an old thread, however, it seems to be the most relevant one for my question.

We had neglected to update our NethServer 7 installation for over 6 months. Once this oversight was discovered, all available updates were immediately applied via Software Center’s Updates tab. However, once the installation completed, we found that Bandwidthd disappeared!

It is no longer listed in the Installed tab, nor is it listed in the Available tab.

Running yum --enablerepo=nethserver-testing install nethserver-bandwidthd fails.

Has this module been discontinued?

dnutan · February 23, 2018, 12:15pm

You are right. From the release notes:

Major changes on 2017-10-26
Ntopng 3 replaces Bandwidthd, the Server Manager has a new “top talkers” page which tracks hosts network usage

Though code is available on github.

Edit: The manual still holds some reference to BandwidthD.

filippo_carletti · February 23, 2018, 2:56pm

I used the big hammer:

pratsx · February 26, 2018, 6:41am

Thank you, @dnutan, for the clarification!

@filippo_carletti,