Re: Graphing Tool

["C. Tate Baumrucker" <tate.baumrucker () callisma com>]

JPGraph is a great on-the-fly PHP-based graph generation library set:
http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/

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C. Tate Baumrucker
Principal Architect
Callisma
http://www.callisma.com


Francisco Rodrigo Cortiñas wrote:

> Francisco Rodrigo Cortiñas.
> CCNP, MCSE, MCDBA.
> When I worked for an ISP, I recommended them to use apps like, Big
> Sister, Netsaint and similar, to make a web interface to monitor network
> and server status. But If you have the ability to make the scripts on
> your own and don’t want the interface, then I would use only RRD to make
> the graphs; the only thing you need is: separate MRTG from RRD (or
> download it), create your own customized databases, feed them with your
> data and use them to feed the graphs. The input is customized by the
> scripts you use to feed the databases and the config of the databases
> (time intervals and others). You also could use the tools of RRD to
> extract and manipulate the data. There are a lot of manuals of RRD on
> Internet to explain how to do it.
>
> If you only need a command line utility to only plot the data, gnuplot
> and similar would be useful to you. Go and see sourceforge.net for more.
>
> If you feel you need something more, and have time to learn, I recommend
> you to use a language named TCL to make a graphic app to show the graphs
> (it isn’t too difficult, the language is very friendly, and has modules
> to make the graphs and other stuff for you). The results could be, with
> some practice, very impressive (also recommend you to search
> sourceforge.net for some examples).
>
>
> Francisco Rodrigo Cortiñas.
> CCNP, MCSE, MCDBA.
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Tony Kava [mailto:securityfocus () pottcounty com] 
> Enviado el: martes, 02 de marzo de 2004 17:04
> Para: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Asunto: Graphing Tool
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm looking for a command-line utility to run on a Linux platform that
> can
> generate some line or bar graphs based on basic data such as number of
> junk
> e-mail messages rejected, etc.  I do use MRTG to monitor network devices
> in
> 5 minute intervals, but I'm interested in automatically generating some
> graphs based on daily totals instead of constant gauge readings.
> Perhaps I
> can adjust interval settings for MRTG (or RRDTOOL) to accomplish this.
>
> I don't need anything to generate the data, I can script that, but I'm
> interested in what others are using to generate graphs like this.  For
> example I may want to have a graph showing total junk messages rejected
> over
> the past seven days with one bar (or line point) for each day.  This is
> generally a job for a spreadsheet (i.e. Excel), but I want to automate
> this
> so I can view the output on a web interface.
>
> What tools are people using to generate such graphs?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Tony Kava
> Senior Network Administrator
> Pottawattamie County, Iowa
>
>
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