How to measure a Website Bandwidth (Upload+Downloa

Hope that everybody is fine here.

I am writing a windows service in C#/VB.Net that aims at measuring bandwidth consumption for all WebSites on localhost and store their statistics for upload , download etc on local/remote database.

Target Platforms include only Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2.

I have searched a bit on this thing and found the following:

Using SNMP mgmtapi.dll which is found in Windows 2003
Using a custom Network Driver to collect statistics.

Please guide on the most appropriate ,secure and effective methodology/technique or set of such techniques which can be used to measure the bandwidth consumption for each different website.

Please also share any code in this regard.

Regards

Steve

I found An assembly called snmpsharpnet wich is very helpful to play with SNMP on the top of .NET.

According to the explanation I wrote in this article the rate of input bandwith usage can be computed by for agiven interface:

"In" Bandwith usage in % = (((ifInOctets(t2)-ifInOctets(t1)) * 8)*100) / (ifSpeed * (t2-t1))

Here is a sample code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

using SnmpSharpNet;

namespace Exemple2
{
  class Program
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      /* Get an SNMP Object
       */
      SimpleSnmp snmpVerb = new SimpleSnmp("192.168.1.121", 161, "public");
      if (!snmpVerb.Valid)
      {
        Console.WriteLine("Seems that IP or comunauty is not cool");
        return;
      }


      /* Sample of simple Get usage on ifSpeed on interface 10
       * TODO : for sure you have to detect the right interface
       */
      Oid oidifSpeed = new Oid(".1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5.10");

      /* Getting ifSpeed
       */
      Dictionary<Oid, AsnType> snmpDataS = snmpVerb.Get(SnmpVersion.Ver2, new string[] { oidifSpeed.ToString() });
      if (snmpDataS != null)
        Console.WriteLine("Interface speed \"{0}\" : {1}", oidifSpeed.ToString(), snmpDataS[oidifSpeed].ToString());
      else
        Console.WriteLine("Not Glop!");

      /* Sample of simple Get usage on ifInOctets on interface 10
       * TODO : for sure you have to detect the right interface
       */
      Oid oidifInOctets = new Oid(".1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.10");
      Dictionary<Oid, AsnType> snmpData1;

      /* Getting it for the first time
       */
      snmpData1 = snmpVerb.Get(SnmpVersion.Ver2, new string[] { oidifInOctets.ToString() });
      if (snmpData1 != null)
        Console.WriteLine("Number of In octets \"{0}\" : {1}", oidifInOctets.ToString(), snmpData1[oidifInOctets].ToString());
      else
        Console.WriteLine("Not Glop!");

      int missed = 0;
      while (true)
      {
        if (missed == 0)
        {
          /* When you detect a non refesh data, keep the last one
           */
          snmpData1 = snmpVerb.Get(SnmpVersion.Ver2, new string[] { oidifInOctets.ToString() });
          if (snmpData1 != null)
            Console.WriteLine("Number of In octets \"{0}\" : {1}", oidifInOctets.ToString(), snmpData1[oidifInOctets].ToString());
          else
            Console.WriteLine("Not Glop!");
        }

        /* Some Wait (less aproximative)
         */
        int duration = 5;
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(duration*1000); // duration seconds

        /* Getting it for the Second time
         */
        Dictionary<Oid, AsnType> snmpData2 = snmpVerb.Get(SnmpVersion.Ver2, new string[] { oidifInOctets.ToString() });
        if (snmpData2 != null)
          Console.WriteLine("Number of In octets \"{0}\" : {1}", oidifInOctets.ToString(), snmpData2[oidifInOctets].ToString());
        else
          Console.WriteLine("Not Glop!");

        Counter32 I1 = new Counter32();
        I1.Set(snmpData1[oidifInOctets]);
        Counter32 I2 = new Counter32();
        I2.Set(snmpData2[oidifInOctets]);
        Counter32 speed = new Counter32();
        speed.Set(snmpDataS[oidifSpeed]);

        if (I2.Value == I1.Value)
        {
          missed += 1;
          continue;
        }
        decimal bandWithUsage = (((decimal)(I2.Value - I1.Value) * 8) * 100) / (speed * duration * (1+missed));
        Console.WriteLine("BandWith usage : {0}%", bandWithUsage);
        missed = 0;
      }
    }
  }
}

This is just au proof of concept, now you probably need to incoparate a BackgroundWorker and a timer.

I hope it helps.

Best regards