Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could direct me to _useful_ resources about using the 
RRD databases generated by NTop?

What I want to do is use the NTop data for an external application. My problem 
right now is data. If I'm not mistaking, the NTop dumps (dumpdata.html in PHP 
or text) do not allow me to link one host to another (and thus allow me to 
visually portray connections between hosts on the network). They give me a lot 
of information about one particular hosts, but not about the connections to 
other hosts. Also, it's hard to simply import this into other databases because 
I get variable record lengths.

What I want to know is how to conveniently extract _relevant_ data from the 
RRD's for use in other database or webservice systems. I've played around with 
RRD tool and have extracted XML dumps from RRD files but they don't appear to 
make much sense.

I've read Burton's paper on RRD's (RRD and ntop) but that didn't really help me 
either. Unless I'm missing something, the way RRD's are used with ntop seems 
overly complex and inaccessible. Feel free to enlighten me on that subject :)

-Tom


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