Daily Bandwidth Report: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:49, 7 March 2014

2014/03 => The old bandwidth reporting script has been updated with the Perl programming language and should now do a better job at keeping up with nwtel's new and improved internet packages.
The bandwidth report, as installed on a nwtel-connected firewall, will compile a report and send it every night at midnight
It is important to note that Accounted data can skew into inaccuracy for a good number of reasons
- It is a good tool to use to identify abusers and runaway connections
- It will almost never be as accurate as the Raw data count, and if the Accounted data is more than the Raw, something is probably wrong.
When you start using this report, the initial counts will be wrong, how wrong is pretty random, depending on the existing stats on your firewall
- Daily counts should start being accurate for the 2nd report
- MTD (Month to Date) counts will start being accurate at the beginning of the next month

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 **It is a good tool to use to identify abusers and runaway connections
 **It will almost never be as accurate as the Raw data count, and if the Accounted data is more than the Raw, something is probably wrong.
+*When you start using this report, the initial counts will be wrong, how wrong is pretty random, depending on the existing stats on your firewall
+**Daily counts should start being accurate for the 2nd report
+**MTD (Month to Date) counts will start being accurate at the beginning of the next month
 ==SUMMARY==