Hi again, Unfortunately, it's not my decision to make. I did install Cacti, tried it out, liked it, talked about it with who's in charge, but I am still requested to create a rrd myself and fill it with the values stored on the mysql db.. so back to square 1. Thanks anyway for replying , Mark.
Regards, -- Sérgio Lopes *CORE-IPP* Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 537 4200 - 072 Porto Telef: +351 22 830 25 55 Fax: +351 22 830 25 56 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Get Firefox <http://getfirefox.com/> Get Thunderbird <http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/> Mark Duling wrote: >Sérgio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thursday, September 1, 2005 at 3:45 AM >-0800 wrote: > > >>I'm completely new to rrd and I'd appreciate some help here. I've read >>some short tutorials but they didn't really help me... >>In our organization, we log the usage of our wireless network >>(successful logins, bandwidth use, etc) in a mysql database and we want >>to store those values in a rrd.. >>So, for instance, if I want to store the number of successful logins >>initiated in each 5 minute period and pull out some graphs of daily, >>monthly or yearly use how should I: >>* setup the rrd, i. e., what rrdtool command should I build >>* create the daily, weekly, whatever usage graphs >> >> > >Sergio, > >I'd use an RRDtool front-end that manipulates RRDTool automatically for >you. These front-ends are made to graph network devices and provide 4-hr, >day, week, month, and year graphs automatically, using RRDtool to do it. >That way all you need to do is supply SNMP info about your network gear. >I like NRG (http://nrg.hep.wisc.edu/); some like Cacti >(http://www.cacti.net/). > >Regards, > >Mark > >-- >Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users >WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi > > > > > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
