Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist NISCA (the Network Interface Statistics Collection Agent) is a program by Brett Baugh that gathers and displays network statistics. Here is a quote from its README file explaining its raison d'etre:
"NISCA was born to replace the popular MRTG package. Although MRTG is a fine application respected all over the world, I've always found it lacking some features that I really wanted in a network statistics analyzer; things like scalable graphs, collection of data other than bytes transferred, the "time zoom" feature, and the ability to generate graphs from any period in the past without losing any detail due to data compression." It stores its data in a MySQL database, uses PHP4, supports reading from /proc on localhost or using SNMP to gather data, has a web-based administration GUI, and is generally pretty cool. I have contributed in small ways to this program and had intended to make a Debian package for it (it would have been my first), but I realize I don't have the time. However it deserves to be part of Debian, thus this request. If I get time later on, I may try to package it again, but I would be glad to let another interested party package NISCA. NISCA is subject to the GPL and is downloadable from: http://www.isthisthingon.org/nisca - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
