In my accounting system i limit using cpu-time by user. But on servers with different cpu’s same operation may take different cpu-time. Now i want compare perfomance for my servers to introduce factor wich helps me make accounting system more “honest”. Please, give me some advice about comparing performance of cpus. UPD: I found ubench … Read more
I’m using openvpn and free-radius for control user accounts. for maximum session time for an user, free-radius has sqlcounter.conf that control that, but after a connection has disconnected that is useful and cannot destroy a connection. for control account time dynamically i need another script that do that. but should anytime that a connection has … Read more
I use shorewall to configure my firewall. Is there anyway to track torrent traffic using shorewall accounting? Answer You can force the packets for your torrent traffic to the logs by enacting a LOG rule on it, just before the ACCEPT rule for it. For example, if your torrent traffic is on port 5555 you … Read more
I am trying to see if it is possible to use FreeRADIUS to filter certain request types before forwarding the request on to its final destination. I have the following topology for RADIUS accounting packets. WAP -> Aruba Clearpass (RADIUS Server) -> Fortigate (Firewall) This is setup so that I can use RADIUS accounting packets … Read more
I am now trying to run logging of accounting information into my database. I use FreeRadius. I have read at glance a few RFC for radius accounting and authentication, so I expect that it is not possible, but I want to ask. Is there any attribute for user’s hostname? And if it is not, why? … Read more
Currently, I have drives that log the count LBA which they have processed – but that is a special SMART counter/value not generally available as it seems. Is there any generic way of logging how much data was processed by a system per disk? Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Mandraenke , Answer … Read more
How do you account for GPU compute time on your HPC clusters ? I have a growing, and quite heterogeneous (SXM4 A100s, PCIe A100s, NVlinked V100s, PCIe V100s, T4s, AMD cards arriving soon etc…), GPU partition on an HPC cluster (mixed hardware Debian servers running OAR scheduler). Traditionally, we accounted compute time as seconds per … Read more
Some of our Solaris 10 servers are monitored using SiteScope, which uses Telnet to probe certain ports (SSH is one of them) every few minutes. This is creating an insane amount of lines in /var/adm/wtmpx, and eventually make it so big (2,5G+) that we can no longer run the last command, or that the uptime … Read more
I would like to convert from the xferlog format that proftpd uses into per user in/out bytes, to have a summary on how much traffic does each user use per month. The exact format of xferlog is this: Thu Oct 17 12:47:05 2013 1 123.123.123.123 74852 /home/vftp/doc1.txt b _ i r user ftp 0 * … Read more
Our CRM system can post transactions to our accounts software (Pastel Evolution), but it doesn’t perform the required currency conversion. Both systems have different “base” currencies (because of our location), so the figure thats sent to Pastel evolution is right, but it is reflected in the wrong currency. The CRM uses an ODBC connection to … Read more
