Re: Statistics for Firewalls

[IT - Sven Mueller <sven.mueller () berndes com>]

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Won Wednesday, Sep 11 2002 09:16pm, Christopher Hicks wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John Adams wrote:

> > Ahh, I suppose MRTG didn't work out for you, then? It's a much better
> > tool for the job, but I bet you've already been told that. :)
>
> Generally I've been quite irritated with the unusability of MRTG and the
> illegibility of the underlying code.  I would rather hand code each and
> every snmp probe than fight with getting mrtg to cooperate.  The stuff
> people are doing with rrdtool looks far better, but I haven't gotten to
> play with any of that yet.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't rrdtool basically a database to log 
numerical values? By itself, it doesn't read any data at all. It needs mrtg 
or similar programs to feed data to it.
The graphical output of rrdcgi and its colleagues (sp?) is better than the 
orginal mrtg graphs though.

Regards

Sven Müller
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