[freeside] bandwidth usage

[Dave Burgess]

There is also a program called Netramet that might sufficiently meet
your needs.  It does bandwidth calculation without relying on MRTG and
summarizes the data for you in a very easy to use form.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ivan [mailto:ivan at 420.am]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:09 PM
> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
> Subject: Re: [freeside] bandwidth usage
> 
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:21:27AM -0800, Aaron Collins wrote:
> > I'm going to attempt to add the ablity to do bandwidth utilization
> > charges in fresside based on the 95 percentile. And charge for over
> > usage, can you recomend a good starting point?  I'm reading through
the
> > docs & mail archives and I notice several people have started this
great
> > hunt.  I plan on using MRTG with the 95.pl script from sean adams to
> > create the averages. Then I'll throw those into a sql db.  What I'm
> > wondering is, is their a way to add a hook into freeside so that at
the
> > end of the billing period, it will run a custom script that I write
and
> > pass it a value like a (username || userid) and be able to add the
> > returned value on to the overall monthly bill?
> 
> Nothing needs to be added.  Package definitions already evaluate the
> "setup" and "recur" fields to determine the resulting price.  Take a
> look at the package definition edit and FS::part_pkg.
> 
> >  If you feel that I'm aproaching this wrong, could you offer a
better
> > solution?
> 
> My preference would be to put the raw SNMP data into an SQL database
and
> using something like RRDtool or seafelt and then do the averages with
> SQL, rather than muck around with MRTG and scripts first, but I'm not
> actively working on it, so I don't get much say, do I?  :)
> 
> --
> _ivan