My personal opinion is that effort should be put into the RRDTool plugin because it is much lighter then storing DB data over a period of time (I also think the data stored in a DB is incomplete...not sure of the details), and RRDTool is great for this purpose.
Really, all I would really want to do is be able to distinguish when the statistics were collected preferably a 24 hour period, then average that over a week, month, etc.). What do you want to do with all that data anyway? RRDTool should collect the data over a 24 hour period, save the stats, and start over again ... something like MRTG. But I guess this all depends on what kind of information you need from NTOP. Any thoughts? --Blake --- Christopher Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: > > 3. Be sure that they're well thought out and > generally applicable -- not > > just something that only works if you're running > RedHat v6.2. > > It seems like the world has progressed (is > progressing) from "the whole > world is a vax" through "the whole world is windows, > and by that we > naturally mean we're corrupting the term by making > it Microsoft-specific" > until we're now getting to "the world is Red Hat". > I've opposed such > short-sightedness where practical through time, but > I must say I don't > miss the VAX nearly as much as I used to. :) > > Back on the ntop front, I've been considering doing > something to restore > MySQL support since I already use MySQL to store a > lot of our historic > records. I'm wondering if anyone would be willing > to share some sage > advice on how ntop and mysql relate. 1) Would it > make sense to do MySQL > integration as a plug-in? 2) Has anyone started > anything like this > already? 3) What was the motivation in ripping the > mysql support out? > Would looking at what was ripped out do any good or > harm? 4) Can plug-ins > be written in perl? Have any been? > > -- > </chris> > > "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk > about Perl club." > -- Chip Salzenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop
