question about installation of Cricket/RRDTool. Here is a little background. I am a relatively new Nagios user trying to graphically document traffic flow broken down by protocol/queue (in this case, one group for RTP traffic, and one for everything else). It seems that Nagios/MRTG is not going to be the best tool to do this for a number of reasons, mostly because I do not require notification for this....just graphing. If I need to tie it to Nagios for those features later, I'll figure that out then.
I went through an initial config of cricket that didn't work out so well (not at all, actually - it would not compile after I made config changes), so I have axed it and am starting again. Some of the error messages and "file not found"s that I got with Cricket seemed to indicate to me that I should have installed RRDTool first.) Here are my questions... I promise I RTFM on all the doc that came with RRDTool and Cricket.....although it is 3am and I am a bit bleary-eyed. Keep in mind I am a new linux admin in general and this would be my frist real project in this area.) 1) Should I install RRDTool before Cricket? Does it make a difference? (Also, should I use the RPM for RRDTool, or do a 'make' on the tar file?) 2) What should I be looking to accomplish in terms of the initial RRDTool config? Again, all I need to do is view simple bandwidth utilization by protocol (or queue, if that is a possibility). 3) Is there a place where I can find a walk-through on a basic RRDTool config and RRD database creation? Again, all the doc I went through that came with the RRDTool package seems really theoretical and ambiguous....which I am sure I will need later - but since I am a dumb newbie, I am looking for the instructions that say "Unlock door. Sit on seat. Place ignition key in ignition ket slot. Turn key clockwise until engine is running." That kind of thing... Your help is sincerely appreciated...Thanks! (If the reply is "RTFM" - could I perhaps also request a link to a better manual? :-) Thanks!) James -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
