Bandwidth measurement using iperf3 and RRD

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Setup

Installation of required components on Debian 8

sudo apt-get install iperf3
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install rrdtool php5-rrd

iperf3 binaries are also available here: https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php

Iperf server

A remote machine is required which runs an iperf3 server instance.

iperf3 -s -D

Alternatively, a public iperf3 server can be used. See https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php.

Get the source

https://github.com/christianeisendle/bandwidth-measure-rrd.git

Initialize the rrd database

./rrd-init.sh

Configuration

The iperf3 server must be specified using BW_IPERF_SERVER variable either by setting it as environment variable or by specifying it in bandwidth.cfg:

BW_IPERF_SERVER=my.iperfserver.com

Note: bandwidth.cfg must exist; it can be empty, though.

Configure crontab

Example:

*/10 * * * * capture_and_update_db_iperf3.sh