Re: Graphing Tool

[Markus Schabel <markus.schabel () tgm ac at>]

Tony Kava wrote:
> 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?

mailgraph (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~dws/software/mailgraph/) - you can 
change it's behavior so that it only displays daily totals. awstats
should also be able to do this, but I've never played around with it. Of
course it is also possible with MRTG (and RRDtool as you can see on
mailgraph).

Just search freshmeat for "mail statistics" or only "statistics", you'll
find a lot ;)

best regards
Markus

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