Monitoring Squid with Squid-Graph

Squid Graph is a free, simple, yet powerful Squid v2 native logfile analysis tool that generates reports with graphical representation of the proxy server’s traffic.

1. you must have proxy server with squid.
2. to install Squid-Graph we need perl and gd module.

apt-get install libgd-gd2-perl

3. we must download Squid-Graph source. we can download with wget or download this earlier.

wget http://biznetnetworks.dl.sourceforge.net/project/squid-graph/squid-graph/3.2/squid-graph-3.2.tar.gz

4. extract Squid-graph

tar xzvf squid-graph-3.2.tar.gz -C /etc/init.d/

5. add execute permission

 chmod +x /etc/init.d/squid-graph/*

6. make html direktory in document root (default : /var/www)

cd /var/www
mkdir squid-graph

7.

cd /etc/init.d/squid-graph

./squid-graph --tcp-only -n -o=/var/www/squid-graph/ --title="proxy" < /var/log/squid/access.log

8. open the web browser , type http://yourip/squid-graph

9. add on crontab , Now we have made the crontab directly’ll update our needs, illustrate for updates once every 5 minutes.

crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /etc/init.d/squid-graph/squid-graph --tcp-only -n -o=/var/www/squid-graph/ --title="proxy" < /var/log/squid/access.log

original source

http://www.forummikrotik.com/software/12520-squid-share-tool-monitoring-squid-dengan-squid-graph.html