Graphing methodology

[Mark Poepping]

If you'd be willing to contribute the scripts and maybe the config you
use for rrd linkage, I think that may be very valuable for folks.
Either as attachments to the list or perhaps better as direct
contribution to qosient for the next release.
Mark.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-argus-
> info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Roy Hooper
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:51 PM
> To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Graphing methodology
> 
> I am using RRDtool to graph per-IP flow data, and wanted to verify my
> methodology is sound  -- that is, the graph is representational of
> reality.
> 
> - I am gathering all data from the network at the egres point using
argus
> and
> archiving the files captured hourly.
> - I am running ragator -c -n -G -f ipstats.conf <filter> to aggregate
the
> flows
> for 300-second intervals
> - I am using the end time, IPs and in/out bytes and merging multiple
> instances
> for the desired IP into buckets for every ceil(time/300)*300.
> - I am plotting that using an absolute dataset in RRDtool.
> 
> The resulting plots appear to be fairly accurate.
> 
> ---
> Roy Hooper
> 
> 
>