Re: Network Bandwidth Reporting Tool

[Andy Davidson <andy () nosignal org>]

On 22 Jan 2010, at 02:13, Isaac Conway wrote:

> I am curious what tools you use to generate monthly usage and billing
> reports

This :

> I was thinking about writing some quick scripts to poll the router
> interfaces and put it to database,

Mainly because organisations have different methods for managing the flow of business metrics inside the org, e.g. 
crm/accounting packages/policies/products, and by writing your own glue between them you can automate the human error 
prone stages like this :

> a page I can pull up and gives me the numbers (95p,
> cost, overage, etc.) for the past month.  Copy and paste into a
> spreadsheet, job complete....

Andy