Re: Is accounting supported?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 08:18 +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:51 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 14:31 +0530, Elison Niven wrote:
> > > Hi List,
> > > 
> > > I am using Network manager with Gnome network applet on Fedora 12.
> > > 
> > > Are there any options for getting accounting like information about connect
> > > times, data bytes in and out etc?
> > 
> > Not yet, but I've been trying to get somebody interested in doing the
> > feature since I'm swamped with a bunch of other stuff at this point.  It
> > shouldn't be too bad; we just keep a sqlite database around of all
> > connection start/stop/bytecounts and then expose that as a D-Bus
> > interface that applets can read.  Either somebody needs to step up or I
> > guess just wait until I get around to it.
> 
> I'd like to volunteer to do this. I'll get around to it over the weekend
> and send you patches if you like. All I need is a list of desired
> features and I'll implement it. Just my way of contributing to NM!

Excellent!  I put a summary of what I think should be done here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601372

Does the stuff in Comment #3 sound doable?  You don't have to do
everything at the start but we can do it incrementally.  Like you don't
need to populate the "user-id" and "user-name" fields yet, since we need
to do a bit more internally to NM to store that information in the
NMActRequest structure (by pulling the uid off the D-Bus request to
start the connection).

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!
Dan