On Tuesday 04 June 2002 2:16 am, James Schnack wrote: > Thanks a lot to Don and Mark for their insight. I will keep in mind your > opinions & suggestions. > > I have some questions regarding Mark's comments: > >- read the tutorials from Alex van den Bogaerdt . and then re-read them > >(heh) > > I have. And I have. ;-) > > >- I found that it was best for me to write my own frontend to rrdtool. > > What was the best way you found to do that ? Did you use rrdcgi ? Or maybe > the RRDs module and "regular" perl cgi scripts ? (This sounds to me as more > efficient and orderly way to do it.)
I like to roll my own, but I have seen a system where rrdcgi was used with mysql and an authentication system to allow users to create their own "favorite" graphs > > >- Each server/metric combination is its own rrd file > > Ok. I like that. > > >- alarms - this is likely a function of the data collector, not rrdtool, > > Mmmm, yes, you're right. So I guess I could include threshold checking in > my data-collecting perl scripts, which will be using 'snmpget' and 'rrdtool > update' to do the job. Does this make sense ? I would look at Net::SNMP if you are collecting a lot of values -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
