Monitor BW usage "per user" basis..?
 

anyone know of a script that can do this, monitor bandwidth consumption on a per username basis? looking to catch the proxy people... Pennywise does not mesh properly w/ our server software (Zeus Server)... anyone know of a simple tool for this need? if not, can anyone suggest another method of rooting out those pw pairs that are coming in through a proxy to avoid detectiong of multiple users? someone suggested implementing MOD_THROTTLE but after reading up on the package it seems not a very good solution... anyone..?

mod_throttle and mod_bandwidth both dont work.

we wrote up a custom package, but it took quite some time.... you may want to look at a custom package yourself.

Doesn't your stats program do this? Most I have seen will post usage per authenticated user.

L0stMind, did you guys come up w/ a script-based solution? any details you could provide about how it works, or what it does exactly..?

no, it doesn't... could you recommend a stats package that offered this functionality?

Analog
It shows it in percent of bytes downloaded.

p00p, it shows bw usage by username, or IP address?

It shows something like this:

reqs: %bytes: user
----: ------: ----
1323: 2.01%: denydog6
571: 19.81%: kamanchy
527: 74.24%: cucumber
254: 0.34%: recboy
175: 0.34%: chubby
154: 2.54%: dagger583
119: 0.24%: justrock
61: 0.18%: cliffmac

So yes, it is by username.

ah cool, that would do the trick i think... i'll look into installing that today, does it eat much in the way of CPU cycles..? thx friend..

I wish Web Trends did this. It's such a crippled, useless program, sometimes I wonder why I even have it on my server. Then I remember: Oh yeah, I'm running Apache on Windows 2k because I don't know Linux. That's why.

Brian

It depends on the size of your logfile, and what it is analyzing.
If your logfile is around 50-100mb in size, you probably won't even notice the overhead on your server. It is probably the fastest and most efficient stats program out there. We have never, ever had a problem with it.