[collectd] Traffic accounting and Collectd

[Benjamin Schweikert]

Dear list,
I got a question on how to do this best. I wrote a (bash) script which executed every minute collects the traffic to and from external for each ip address and also calculates the overall traffic. The is based on iptables and based on the arp table. So every time the script es executed it checks what ips are available. A typical output would be something like this:

2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.2.1 0 0 28035 76
2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.1.100 481 658 161480 131296
2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.0.8 28 109 102670 13092
2015.04.01-19:30:01 192.168.0.2 1366 29443 1340488 1767049
2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.0.1 0 0 0 0
2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.0.4 0 0 0 0
2015.04.01-19:30:02 188.193.78.254 0 0
2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.1.106 45 28 27471 1731
2015.04.01-19:30:02 192.168.1.101 0 0 24662 0
2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.0.9 5 8 25732 1108
2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.0.3 0 0 0 0
2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.0.5 0 0 0 0
2015.04.01-19:30:03 192.168.1.107 0 0 0 0
2015.04.01-19:30:04 192.168.0.176 0 0 3799 102
2015.04.01-19:30:04 192.168.0.7 0 0 11845 0
2015.04.01-19:30:04 192.168.2.2 0 0 0 0
2015.04.01-19:30:04 ALL 1925 30246 1726182 1914454

$IP $UP $DOWN $TOTALUP $TOTALDOWN [bytes]

What do you suggest to include this in collectd because I want to use a gui like CGP to visualize it. Currently I am creating my own rrd graphs but the rrd files are not compatible with the iptables plugin.

Thanks for the help.

Best regards
Ben
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