RE: Graphing Tool

[jburzenski () americanhm com]

Tony,

I agree with Michael and Francisco.  RRDTOOL is the way to go for time based
graph such as that which you describe.  I was recently faced with a similar
graphing need and RRDTOOL worked exceptionally.

There is a small learning curve that is quickly overcome once you get into
the time based graphing mindset rather than the excel data driven graphing
mindset.  For your typical .csv conversion to graph, RRDTOOL is pretty much
useless. 

I can send you my database creation, scripted updates and scripted graph
generating commands offlist if you would like.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Kava [mailto:securityfocus () pottcounty com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:04 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: 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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