aNTG: traffic statistics tool
I’ve been having doubts about the official traffic statistics offered to me by my ISP, so I’ve decided to install my own accounting tool.
The best would’ve been a SNMP-based tool, since my router supports SNMP. But unfortunately I’ve yet to find a simple enough SNMP-based tool.
aNTG took me about two minutes to set up. I unpacked it in a directory under the main directory for the Apache that runs on my machine, initialized a MySQL database for it, edited a simple config file, and entered a data gathering script in cron.
Now all I have to do is visit http://localhost/antg every once in a while and browse the statistics.
About the only thing wrong with it is the lack of actual graphs. It only does statistical breakups at day, month and year level. But, frankly, all really I wanted was the actual figures, so I can live without it.
aNTG, pretty good for 2 minutes’ work.