Pmacct - A lightweight passive network monitoring tool

[ummeegge (Erik Kapfer)]

Hi Michael,
are you sure that you can execute a set of commands and options via ‘print_trigger_exec’ ? The examples i have found just calls the script. ‘print_trigger_exec’ needs ‘print_refresh_time’ to be executed but you have this in your configuration as far as i can see.

Best,

Erik

[hellfire]

THIS could be the cause, your may be right, thanks for this suggestion.

I will give it a try and write different bash-scripts which itself include the parameters and will see what happens.

OTH, do you guess what happens if I use a " at the beginning and at the end to use one single string, similar to this one:

print_trigger_exec[green_full]: “cd /root/metrics && /usr/bin/python3 /root/metrics/traffic.py -f /root/metrics/traffic_green_full.csv -i green0 -m full”

Did not try this, but will definitely check this too.

[hellfire]

are you sure that you can execute a set of commands and options via ‘print_trigger_exec’ ? The examples i have found just calls the script. ‘print_trigger_exec’ needs ‘print_refresh_time’ to be executed but you have this in your configuration as far as i can see.

YES! Erik this was the correct solution! I’ve now coded some bash script that itself call my Python script with arguments and change the mentioned option in pmacct.conf.

Since then, I get my values inserted into my database.

Thanks again,
Michael

[ummeegge (Erik Kapfer)]

Hi all,
there is a new version out --> https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/releases but am currently not sure which compile time options do you all got. If you are interested, just let it me know. If the old, not solvable problems can be solved with the new version i would make then may a merge request.

Best,

Erik

[jon]

I have pmacct installed and running. I still haven’t found an easy way to get data out of pmacct besides downloading everything and manipulating data within MS Excel.

Anyway - I’d like to see it updated and merged as an approved addon!

[ummeegge (Erik Kapfer)]

Hi Jon,
happy that you find it useful but i need some infos from you all (which are using it) in which kind you are using it. RabbitMQ, GeoIP, Sqlite only ?

Best,

Erik

[jon]

Using pmacct just like what was discussed at the top of this thread. And I am using Sqlite.

Pmacct - A lightweight passive network monitoring tool

Will it help monitor an ISP data cap? Per host/device? I’d like to watch the data usage per device on my network. (I started reading the the pmacct.net website documents but it is over my head. I’m still reading!) https://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=23475

And my goal is to find this type of info so I can learn what device is getting me too close to my data cap.

Pmacct - A lightweight passive network monitoring tool

Instead of two worksheets I now have one: [36%20AM] But it involves conditional formulas and a pivot table to work. Same type of question: can pmacct or a sql query help? Or is everything done as a post process (like using Excel or something else)?

[jon]

Hey Erik @ummeegge!

Happy Holidays! I want to re-download and re-install pmacct but it is missing from:
https://people.ipfire.org/~ummeegge/pmacct/

Is it moving to an approved, official IPFire add-on?     _{^{I hope!   I hope!   I hope!}}

[ummeegge (Erik Kapfer)]

Hi Jon, yes i deleted it. Please send me an PM for further infos.

Best,

Erik

[jon]

@hellfire

However, I would like to monitor red0 and blue0, too. So according to some hints I’m now using
pcap_interfaces_map: /etc/pmacct/interfaces.map
in pmacct.conf together with this content in above map file:
ifindex=100 ifname=green0 direction=out
ifindex=200 ifname=red0 direction=in
ifindex=300 ifname=blue0 direction=out

I still get some values back into my pipe, however, I do not know how to distinguish those interfaces. It seems if all traffice of all given interfaces are now

@hellfire - Did you get RED0 and BLUE0 up & running within pmacct? Did you find out how to distinguish those network interfaces?