We use 14all because that's what I found to be the best suited for our environment (using BB).
The benefit of using RRDTool over standard MRTG is that MRTG has to redraw every 5 minute graph every 5 minutes. With 14all/RRDTool combination, graphs and web pages are drawn on the fly. The MRTG data is in a Round robin database, not flat files. We have also extended the 5 minute intervals for a 1 year period. This way, we only back up the databases at the end of each year. We don't store graphs, we don't save anything additional. The program used is a perl script that just gives a time/date option. I'll talk to the guy who wrote it - maybe he'll put it up on sourceforge. Paul >>> "Jason Humes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/08/04 08:49AM >>> You seem to have done what I would like to do...but I'm not familiar with 14all (what is the benefit of this over the standard MRTG and also, what sort of custom program pulls the data from your flat MRTG logs? Maybe you could be of help to my project here. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mrtg] Re: MRTG History...or Interactive MRTG revisited >>>> "Cook, Garry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/04/04 12:59PM >>> >> Hi >> I was just going through the history of this list and found a post >> regarding an "Interactive MRTG"...I'm not sure if this was ever >> developed or not...but what it sounds like, and what I'm looking for, >> is some way to display all of the older log data in the "Day" view. I >> mean...maybe I could type in a date and have MRTG pull the logs for >> that date and then display the data in the "Day" graph...instead of >> the week, month, year...I guess just for the added detail. Thanks >> for any info on this... >> >> Jason D. Humes > >If you are storing your data in .rrd files, this is not possible. This >is due to the way RRDTool averages the data points over time. The >graphs are generated on the fly from the .rrd files, and the data >points that make up the graphs that you see today are not going to be >around a week from now. However, the routers2.cgi front-end has been >developed with some 'graph archiving' code that enables you to archive >specific graphs. So, if you look into this further, it may allow you to >archive your daily graphs and be able to refer back to them at a future >date. While I use routers2.cgi (http://www.steveshipway.org/), I have >not tested nor used the archive feature, so I can't offer you much more >detail. > >HTH > >Garry W. Cook, CCNA Sure, you can certainly do this. You just need to adjust the 5 minute RRA when you create the RRD. There is a section in cfgmaker that defines what RRA's are created within an RRD, and you just need to increase this. We are using regular MRTG to poll the values, 14all to display, and a custom program to select a specific 24 hour period to show 5 minute values for any day since we started the collection for up to a year (in some cases up to 4 years) back. Paul -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
