Useful ragraph usage

[Jim O'Gorman]

Sorry about the delay in a reply - brief vacation.

What you describe sounds very interesting, and would be a great help in my
situation.

Currently I am producing a series of graphs every 5 mins that cover the last
hour of use, and every hours that covers the last 24 hours of use. This is
working just fine for me at this point.

I have tried to produce the same graphs covering a weeks worth of use, but
it sucks down all my RAM, then the process dies, and thats that. Being able
to just feed the an rrd then pull the graphs from that should allow me to
generate graphs for a much longer range of time then I currently am able to.

To give you an idea of the graphs I am pulling, I have a general usage
graph, then separate graphs for the local lan being src or dst. I have a
couple others that I produce based on which remote network is being spoken
too, and a couple more that have to do with special services that I want to
track the usage of.

Thanks again for this addition! It is great to have the ablity to graph and
these random data sets that I am pulling.

Thanks
Jim

On 10/26/06, carter at qosient.com <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Jim,
> Thanks!!!   One thing that I am interested in is ragraph() uses perl to
> load rrd's, we then use rrd_graph to generate the graph, and then we delete
> all the intermediate files.  There is no reason that we couldn't just feed
> an rrd, and leave them like MRTG does.  Because there are web based 'on
> demand' graph scripts that just load up rrd' we could feed that kind of
> system.
>
> Is this something that would be interesting?
>
> Carter
>
>
> Carter Bullard
> QoSient LLC
> 150 E. 57th Street Suite 12D
> New York, New York 10022
> +1 212 588-9133 Phone
> +1 212 588-9134 Fax
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jim O'Gorman" <jogorman at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:42:51
> To:argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: [ARGUS] Useful ragraph usage
>
> I have been using argus for a long time now to collect traffic data on
> various lines I have to maintain. With ragraph now, I am excited about
> finding new ways to use this collected data.
>
> Working off and on with the ragraph tool the last couple days, there seems
> to be many useful ways to put this to use. I am interested in using this to
> replace some other tools I use, such as mrtg. I am still up in the air on if
> this is practical at this point, and am currently putting together a series
> of graphs to use over the next month to see how the data compares.
>
> Along those lines, I would be interested to see how anyone is using
> ragraph, what sort of data they are finding useful, what command lines, etc.
> If anyone has anything they wish to share, that would be wonderful.
>
> I have been looking at graphing the basics of the last days/weeks/months
> traffic along with pulling out the top 10 talkers and graphing them as well.
> Perhaps also pulling out specific networks and doing them separate to watch
> for additional trends. This is what is so exciting about this tool, is the
> flexibility to trend all of these arbitrary datasets. At this point, I have
> not found any other tool that allows for this degree of flexibility.
>
> I have been finding the graph of the week very useful as well. Thank you
> for that.
>
> --
> Jim
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> jogorman at gmail.com
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Jim
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