oh before I get hit for this one ... I know RRDTool is a DB ... when I say DB I mean like MySQL or something.
:) Blake --- Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 __________________________________________________ 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
