Useful ragraph usage

[carter at qosient.com]

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


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-----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.

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