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I am using ubuntu 12.04 and Micromax 353G dongle for internet. Everything is working fine. But here I want to see my data used in that session and the balance data.

It is showing all the features in windows but as I am using ubuntu and I love this so I want all this in ubuntu. So is this possible to get a dashboard for Micromax dongle dashboard on ubuntu 12.04? Any help and suggestions will be highly appreciable.

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  • Please elaborate on what dashboard means.
    – VedVals
    Dec 2, 2012 at 9:59

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If I understand correctly you want some sort of indicator to show network traffic totals. As suggested here you could use vnstat, although it is a command line utility.

Another option would be to combine vnstat and indicator-sysmonitor. For example if you want monthly totals in MiB to be displayed alongside other indicators install vnstat, then follow the instructions for installing indicator-sysmonitor here, except use a script like this instead:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Tx (MiB):"$( vnstat -i wlan0 --dumpdb | grep "m;0" | cut -d ";" -f4)\
"--- Rx (MiB):"$( vnstat -i wlan0 --dumpdb | grep "m;0" | cut -d ";" -f5)

The output would look something like this: Tx (MiB):41 --- Rx (MiB):3 and will be displayed alongside your indicators at the top of your screen, all you need to do is modify the script to display and format the data you are interested in.

You will need to change the wlan part of the script to what ever interface you are using, check ifconfig.

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  • Doesn't seem to work. I use dongle like the OP and the -i wlan0 option should be -i ppp0 (at least that showed me some output). However, on using the corrected script, I get everything as 0. vnstat -i ppp0 -d works.
    – VedVals
    Dec 5, 2012 at 16:13
  • Yeah everything show up as zeros for me initially as well, you don't get readings until vnstat runs for a little bit to populate its database. So your first monthly total will only be from the time you installed vnstat.
    – jpetersen
    Dec 5, 2012 at 17:48
  • Got it. It is showing some value now. However, this is the client end data record. The OP wants balance. Subtracting total used from max available would be unreliable. How to do that?
    – VedVals
    Dec 5, 2012 at 17:54
  • I don't know how to do any better than what you suggested,(subtract total used from max available). Not a perfect answer I will admit but at least it gives you an idea of your monthly usage. :)
    – jpetersen
    Dec 5, 2012 at 18:04
  • I read somewhere that we can connect to waytosms.com via terminal and send a message (using python script). If a similar case can be applied here, with the ISP's site, then we may have a solution.
    – VedVals
    Dec 5, 2012 at 18:10
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The data tracking feature is native of the Windows application. As you use network-manager applet for connecting to internet, it isn't usable.

However, if you were to use wine, you may be able to get that application to work in Ubuntu. Although I must warn you, it may not work flawlessly in wine.

Also, ISPs provide such service online. Just create an account with the ISP's site, if allowed to do so, locate the link for such a service and bookmark it. Then you can simply click on it to find remaining data (saving the username and password in the browser).

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you may try gnome-system-monitor apps. under the resources tab you will see the amount of data that have been used under the network history but this only works for the current session as this will reset the moment you get disconnected.this works perfectly for me when tracking how much data i have received.

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Hi you can use vnStat to monitor your bandwidth usage on Ubuntu.

To install vnStat, run following command in terminal

sudo apt-get install vnstat

Know more about vnStat, its official page is here http://humdi.net/vnstat/

and if you want easy guide on how to use it then you may go here http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/11/vnstat-network-traffic-monitor/

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