RE: Graphing Tool

[Damien.Manuel () doi vic gov au]

Greetings,

Netsaint is now called Nagios (www.nagios.org) if anyone is looking for it.

Regards,

Damien Manuel, CISSP

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                      Francisco Rodrigo                                                                                 
                  
                      Cortiñas                 To:       "'Tony Kava'" <securityfocus () pottcounty com>                
                     
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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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