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Paypal Data Converter

Paypal Data Converter stays aside of other HostTools products. We created most of our tools keeping in mind web hosting providers’ and server administrators’ needs. But Paypal Data Converter is created for a wider audience. It is a tool for all those people using Paypal to sell goods and services, and wishing to import Paypal sales list to accounting software.

Paypal Data Converter allows to convert Paypal transactions list to QIF format. Most of business accounting software can easily import QIF files. With this tool we save at least 2 days per month! And wish you to do the same. Just use Paypal Data Converter to import hundreds of sales records to your bookkeeping software instead of manually entering them.

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Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter and Hosting Controller

We have finished the integration of Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter and Hosting Controller (web hosting control panel).

  • Bandwidth reports (created by Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter) are now provided to view with Hosting Controller.
  • In case of bandwidth over usage, Hosting Controller will take appropriate action (configurable) e.g. Suspend Virtual Machine, Resume Virtual Machine.

How to get daily traffic usage reports with Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter

Please download a couple of examples of log parsing automation. You’ll see 2 simple ways of daily Hyper-V traffic usage reports generation. We use Microsoft LogParser software (it is free) in one of the examples, because our customers asked for that.

The file contains scripts and a manual. All is quite straightforward 🙂

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or need more examples.

Script to stop a virtual machine if it overused its bandwidth

If you want to stop Hyper-V virtual machine in case of bandwidth over usage you can use the following VBS script and Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter settings.

Stop Hyper-V virtual machine

Hyper-V bandwidth meter settings

You can download script source code below. It stops a virtual machine and also sends email notification to server administrator.

Be sure you have CDO installed on your server and working SMTP localhost server.

Download this script, unzip it and change eml_from and eml_to strings in stop.vbs file.

Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter 2.0 (for Windows 2008, 2012) released

What is new in Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter 2.0:

  • The Bandwidth Meter is an active application now, not just a passive observer. It can send email notifications if some bandwidth threshold reached, run scripts and do other things.
  • IPv6 support.
  • Improved configuration tool.
  • New improved reporting (log parsing) tool.
  • New reports look.
  • New, significantly revised network packets parsing procedure. Works better with 1 Gbit connections now.
  • The program saves data to its log files every 5 minutes (you can set any other interval from 5 to 60 minutes with 5 minutes step) now, it was once an hour in versions 1.x.
  • Log files can be saved in any folder now.

Please read more and download the new version of Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter.

Here is a bandwidth usage report sample (click to enlarge):

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Updated Log Parser for Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter

Log Parser for Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter now creates 2 reports.

The first one is a HTML report showing the daily bandwidth usage of Hyper-V virtual machines (incoming and outgoing traffic in separate table columns) as long as the total usage per machine for selected period.

The second one is a simple short list of Hyper-V virtual machines (virtual servers) and their traffic usage for the period. This brief report is in CSV format and it is easy to import it to Excel or some database (e.g. your billing system).

Moreover, you can customize the report templates to fit your needs!

By the way, this Log Parser can process log files of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Bandwidth Meter too.

Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter 2 (for Windows 2008, 2012)

hyper-v bandwidth meter

Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter 2 is a tool for Hyper-V bandwidth usage monitoring, counting and reporting.

It provides a bandwidth control on per virtual machine basis for different protocols (ARP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP). With this tool you can see the amount of data used (downloaded and uploaded) by each virtual machine (virtual server). Thus you can bill your customers for the bandwidth usage or just find out which virtual machines cause that high network load.

Installation is straightforward and only takes a couple of minutes.

For more information, please read this document.

System requirements:

  • Windows 2012 or 2008 R2 (64bit only) with Hyper-V
  • .NET framework 4.0

(There is also a version of Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter for Windows 2016: Hyper-V Bandwidth Meter 3.)

Process Operator (Server Edition) 1.0.1 released

What is new in Process Operator 1.0.1:

  • If the Process Operator writes something about w3wp.exe process to log files (CPU usage, priority etc.), it also writes the name of IIS Application Pool running in that process. It allows to see what pool caused high CPU usage.
  • There are 2 types of log files now:
    1. Files named “date_here”.log (e.g. 11.07.2010.log): Process Operator writes some of its actions (most important ones) and error messages (if any) to these log files.
    2. Files named “date_here”-CPU-usage.log (e.g. 11.07.2010-CPU-usage.log): These logs contain information about total CPU usage and a list of 3 processes causing the CPU load. Process Operator writes CPU usage data once a minute. So you can see the full history of CPU usage and “heavy” processes. The log format allows importing it to MS Excel, sorting and building graphs.