[ Thanks to Ahmed Kamal for this
link. ]
“A nifty little features of most routers or ADSL
modems, is support for SNMP. Since both me and my old folks use the
same ADSL line, any host based monitoring solution wouldn’t really
work. I had to monitor the usage using SNMP. Since my folks are
using Windows, the solution had to work on that. The solution
overview is:“1- Enable SNMP on ADSL modem
2- Use a windows scheduled task to run a windows Batch file, that
uses SNMP-tools for windows to pull data from the router
3- Use a windows scheduled task to run a python script that
processes the batch file output and computes the total traffic”
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