First Time Setup

First-time setup

1. Select the physical interface you want to monitor as Primary Network Interface. The shipped default is eth0; choose the interface appropriate for your server.
2. Choose whether to persist the database across reboot before starting the service. Persistence defaults to enabled; its control is disabled while the service is running.
3. Set Start DVM service to Yes and apply. New installations start with the service disabled.
4. Confirm traffic appears before enabling automation. New databases need time to collect period records; missing data is not an exceeded limit.
5. Configure limits and notifications. Check interfaces, directions, periods, and targets before enabling workload actions.

Other defaults: dashboard and footer enabled; text reporting; daily miniature view; virtual interfaces shown; matching, automatic purge, notifications, user actions, and periodic custom alarms disabled. Every threshold starts at -1.

Settings are available through Data Volume Monitor in Unraid; the reports route is /Settings/DVMsettings. Check the displayed release version/channel and backend version before testing. The current bundled backend is vnStat 2.14.

Start with traffic reporting and the diagnostic-only Service Check before enabling automation. Missing period data in a new database is unavailable data, not proof that a limit has been exceeded.