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2018-08-02
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vnstat

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#! /bin/bash
#
# Simple munin plugin to get total traffic transferred on all network interfaces.
# Uses vnStat to keep track of the traffic.
#
# author:	wandrer (wandrer@gmail.com)
# site:		http://roguenoise.org/munin_plugin_vnstat
#
# If the plugin is run as root it will update the vnStat database before getting
# the stats.
#


# Config section
if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then

	echo 'graph_title Total Traffic'
	echo 'graph_args --base 1000 --lower-limit 0'
	echo 'graph_vlabel Traffic'
	echo 'graph_category network'
	echo 'graph_info Total network traffic in bytes.'
	echo 'totaltx.label Sent'
	echo 'totaltx.info Total data sent.'
	echo 'totaltx.cdef totaltx,1000000,*'
	echo 'totalrx.label Received'
	echo 'totalrx.info Total data received.'
	echo 'totalrx.cdef totalrx,1000000,*'
	exit 0

fi;


# The Script

# Running as root?
if [ `whoami` = "root" ]; then
	`vnstat -u`
fi;

# Grabs the totals from the database.
TOTALSRX=`vnstat --dumpdb | grep 'totalrx;' | cut -d';' -f2`
TOTALSTX=`vnstat --dumpdb | grep 'totaltx;' | cut -d';' -f2`

TOTALSRXMB=0
TOTALSTXMB=0

for TOTALRX in $TOTALSRX
do
	let 'TOTALSRXMB += TOTALRX'
done

for TOTALTX in $TOTALSTX
do
	let 'TOTALSTXMB += TOTALTX'
done

echo 'totalrx.value' $TOTALSRXMB
echo 'totaltx.value' $TOTALSTXMB

exit 0