HTTP-Retrievable Linode Stats (in XML)

Comments (7)

1. 
   warewolf January 23, 2007 at 2:24 pm

   ^bump^ only because this was mentioned on linode IRC and I had *no* clue it existed.

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2. 
   efudd January 23, 2007 at 11:46 pm

   Then I guess I’ll remind folk about this:

   http://forever.broked.net/~jason/bw.pl.txt

   It’s what I had in mind when I (others?) asked caker for bandwidth utilization figures via XML. I just did a quick update to fix a couple of bugs, change requested URL to /info from /bw and parse/print out parent host/load figures.

   Original post on this is located at:

   https://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=776

   -jbl

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3. 
   smiffy January 24, 2007 at 1:08 am

   How about an alternative, losing the user=, running it through https, with basic authentication, and picking the user name up from there.

   The idea being that I can pick it up from my local machines rather than having to have the extra hop of going through my Linode.

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4. 
   smiffy January 30, 2007 at 8:09 pm

   Just looking at the output – should host be nested in host?

   Also, thinking to the future when we can have more than one Linode per account, maybe it should be something like:

   [code]
   <linData>
   <linode id=’my-linode-id’>
   <host>
   <hostname>host65536.linode.com</hostname>
   <hostLoad>meltdown</hostLoad>
   <pendingJobs>0</pendingJobs>
   </host>
   …blah…
   …blah…
   …blah…
   </linode>
   <linode id=’my-other-linode’>
   ….
   </linode>
   </linData>
   [/code]

   Having the <linode/> element here and now would help with amalgamating data from several hosts.

   I am going to get the data from each host, then fire them back to my office server, which will aggregate, store and alert me about anything nasty that might be going on.

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5. 
   rick111 December 24, 2007 at 10:07 am

   what do you guys use this for? I’ve got it ouputting the data to stats.php but not really finding it useful?

   Cheers lads
   have a good one

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6. 
   sweh December 24, 2007 at 11:12 am

   [quote:83000eaf58=”rick111″]what do you guys use this for? I’ve got it ouputting the data to stats.php but not really finding it useful?

   Cheers lads
   have a good one[/quote]

   All I really care about is network usage; don’t want to go over! So for me the following in cron.daily is sufficient
   [code]#!/bin/bash

   # Your linode user name
   USER=xxxx

   # Where to report mail
   EMAIL=yyyy

   URL="http://www.linode.com/members/bw/?user=$USER"

   data=$(lynx –dump $URL)

   year=${data#*\<year\>} ; year=${year%%\<*}
   month=${data#*\<month\>} ; month=${month%%\<*}
   max=${data#*\<max_avail\>} ; max=${max%%\<*}
   tx=${data#*\<tx_bytes\>}; tx=${tx%%\<*}
   rx=${data#*\<rx_bytes\>}; rx=${rx%%\<*}
   total=${data#*\<total_bytes\>}; total=${total%%\<*}

   let pct=100*total/max

   let tx=tx/1048576
   let rx=rx/1048576
   let total=total/1048576
   let max=max/1048576

   {
   echo Report for $year/$month
   echo Transmitted: $tx Mbytes
   echo Received: $rx Mbytes
   echo Total: $total Mbytes
   echo
   echo Allowance: $max Mbytes
   echo Used: ${pct}%
   } | /bin/mail -s "Linode bandwidth report" $EMAIL
   [/code]

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7. 
   rick111 December 25, 2007 at 7:14 am

   thanks man

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