RE: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

["Ray Burkholder" <ray () oneunified net>]

I see a reference in the response to RTG.  RTG's claim to fame looks like
speed.  

I've done some work with Cricket and have figured out a way to get at it's
schema.  I've been looking at mating Cricket' s 'getter and schema with
Drraw and genDevConfig tools and putting a Mason based HTML wrapper around
the whole thing so people can pick and choose the components of charts they
want to see (per chart), (per page).  And by filling in simple web forms, it
would be easy to generate command lines for genDevConfig to go out and
create the customized SNMP queries that are needed for Dial-Peers, Cisco's
Quality of Service, etc.

Would anyone be interested in such a contraption? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of Paul Vixie
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 13:43
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)
>
>
> jml () packetpimp org (Jason LeBlanc) writes:
>
> > After looking for 'the ideal' tool for many years, it still 
> amazes me 
> > that no one has built it.  Bulk gets, scalable schema and 
> good portal/UI.
> > RTG is better than MRTG, but the config/db/portal are still lacking.
>
> if funding were available, i know some developers we could 
> hire to build the ultimate scalable pluggable network F/L/OSS 
> management/monitoring system.  if funding's not available 
> then we're depending on some combination of hobbiests (who've 
> usually got rent to pay, limiting their availability for this 
> work) and in-house toolmakers at network owners (who've 
> usually got other work to do, or who would be under pressure 
> to monetize/license/patent the results if That Much Money was 
> spent in ways that could otherwise directly benefit their
> competitors.)
>
> "been there, done that, got the t-shirt."  is there funding 
> available yet?
> like, $5M over three years?  spread out over 50 network 
> owners that's ~$3K a month.  i don't see that happening in a 
> consolidation cycle like this one, but hope springs eternal.  
> "give randy and hank the money, they'll take care of this for 
> us once and for all."
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