vnStat SVG frontend

1. Introduction
2. Demo
3. Usage
4. Desgin
5. More...

Introduction

vnStat SVG frontend (vnStatsvg) is another web-based graphical frontend to vnStat(a network traffic monitor for Linux). It is designed for the distributed & embedded system built on Linux.

• Homepage: http://tinylab.org/vnstatsvg/
• Demo Site: http://tinylab.org/vnstatsvg-demo
• Git Repo: https://github.com/tinyclub/vnstatsvg.git

Demo

http://tinylab.org/vnstatsvg-demo/ is such a demo site.

See screenshot pictures under DEMO/ if can not access it.

• Browsers list tested by the latest vnStatSVG:

    $ seamonkey --version
    	SeaMonkey 1.1.9, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 mozilla.org, build 2008031300
    $ firefox --version
    	Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org
    $ chromium-browser --version
    	Chromium 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 12.10
  

• Http Servers list tested by the latest vnStatSVG:

  • Apache
  • Nginx with fastcgi
  • Busybox httpd applet

Usage

Please read the INSTALL.md document for standard Linux distribution. and INSTALL_Busybox.md document for Busybox based embedded system. To learn multi-protocols configuration, please refer to INSTALL_MultiProtocol.md

For more details, please read it from doc/ or its homepage.

And some frequently asked questions will be added to FAQ.md.

Desgin

It is based on HTML, XML, XSL, Javascript, CSS, SVG, for more information, please read the PAPER(this is a paper published in "The First IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing").

If interest, please try to use another web-based vnStat frontendp and compare it with vnStatSVG, and then try to understand why vnStatSVG is more suitable for the distributed & embedded system.

More...

The new tool named vnstatgui can be used to generate the graphical report. It is in src/vnstatgui/.

References & Links

1. vnStatsvg Homepage
2. vnStatsvg Demo
3. vnStat, a network traffic monitor for linux
4. vnStat PHP frontend, another web-based frontend
5. A CGI+AJAX+SVG based monitoring method for the distributed and embedded system