Rmon and output to database (e.g. mysql format)

[carter at qosient.com]

Hey Robert,
Thanks for the kind words.  So I briefly looked into Crystal Reports a long time ago, and didn't see an obvious way to hook into there way of doing things.  Would MySQL tables be the easiest?  What about XML?  It should be ready in a few weeks!!!

When we talk about MySQL support, its a general strategy for indexing massive amounts of argus data and a method for tools to insert argus data (you specify the key, attributes and optionally a binary "blob" that is the actual argus record), and for tools like ratop() to read data directly from dynamically updated MySQL tables, if the "blob" is in the schema.  The thing is there has been little discussion on the list about this.  Would you have specific features that you would want to have in such a beast to support Crystal Reports?

Carter


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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Leyba <r_leyba14 at yahoo.com>

Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:30:17 
To:argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: [ARGUS] Rmon and output to database (e.g. mysql format)


Hi Carter.....

    Now things are Crystal Clear!  Thanks for the clarification.

Speaking of Crystal, we use Crystal Reports in a lot of our network and 
telecomm admin tasks here in our office.   And I seem to have read somewhere 
that you will soon(?) have a facility where the argus output will be sent 
straight to a database file?   Any timetable on this?   Please sign me up as 
one of the testers!

   Thanks and just to let you and your team know that in the line of work we do 
(network and security admin), your argus tool is fast becoming an indispensible 
tool.

--robert