Install vnstat on Centos at Burst.net to monitor the traffic

The traffic graphic on Burst.net portal is not correct. It is what Burst.net support stuff said. So I would like to install my own traffic monitoring service to track home much I use during the month.

vnStat is the one we are going to go through the installation.

The screen shot below is the report I have for last two weeks.

1) Install vnstat
SSH to VPS

wget http://humdi.net/vnstat/vnstat-1.11.tar.gz
tar xzvf vnstat-1.11.tar.gz
cd vnstat-1.11
make
make install

Until now, vnstat is installed, but it has no GUI for easily viewing.
So step 2 is install vnstat php frontend

2) Install vnstat php frontend

wget http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/files/vnstat_php_frontend-1.5.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf vnstat_php_frontend-1.5.1.tar.gz
cd vnstat_php_frontend-1.5.1
mkdir /home/yourname/yoursite/vnstat
cp -r . /home/yourname/yoursite/vnstat/
cd /home/yourname/yoursite/vnstat/
vi config.php

Edit config.php, change network interface to venet0
change data folder to $data_dir = ‘/var/lib/vnstat/’;

3) Add scheduled cron job to update the log database

cd /var/lib/vnstat
vi dump.sh
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Add following into dump.sh
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vnstat -u -i venet0
vnstat -dumpdb -i venet0 &gt;/var/lib/vnstat/vnstat_dump_venet0

Add following into scheduled cron job to every hours