hagar — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:31:57 +0000

already got the RDB's, i just need the info from it used in the graphs through some sort of ODBC connection.

Wil — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:34:25 +0000

Hm. One possible way around this is to run a cron job every day or every x you want the information archived and run a perl/php/bash script that skims the information from the output pages and throws them into a database?

hagar — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:54:49 +0000

im going to be trying to mate a database to it to generate graphs, got no idea of the level of redevelopment this will take if any. The admin will be using it just for his logs for network usage which I understand is pretty vanilla for it to do.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:21:48 +0000

Quote: Quoted from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing graphical images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. Check http://www.ee.ethz.ch/stats/mrtg/ for an example. MRTG is based on Perl and C and works under UNIX and Windows NT. MRTG is being successfully used on many sites around the net.

dk01 — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:53:07 +0000

Hmm... what is this MRTG thing that you guys are talking about and what is its purpose?
-dk

Wil — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:24:59 +0000

Hm. OK. I might be totally wrong. I just installd MRTG from the Debian deb files and left it to it. Works great for me "out of the box". What kind of customization do you need doing to it?

hagar — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:21:18 +0000

written in C? not from what the admin told me, but he could be wrong. It requires active perl and is full of .pl files he said... sooo I dunno lol. I havent even seen the damn thing yet:D

either way, think perl would be a good thing to learn, ive just finished an install of apache 2.x, active perl and php 4.x.x.x.x.x or whatever its up to now, so now I can see how I go. I'm refreshing my php skills at the same time, i forgot how much I forgot:D

ROB — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:23:23 +0000

the active perl docs are a great and handy reference

Wil — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:03:16 +0000

What do you need to customize about MRTG? I thought MRTG was written in C anyway ... ?

brady.k — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 02:31:26 +0000

love the thread title...besides that, like on most programming threads, can't really help...sorry

that was the light of my day