[mrtg] Re: using mrtg for non snmp/oid graphing

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Ian Stong wrote:
> 
> Have a person at work that wants to export some oracle data into a text file
> and then graph that data.  Excel or a similar package would work but was
> wondering if MRTG would be suitable for this task as well?  If not what
> might be better for this type of task?

I assume you are talking about ``old'' data.  MRTG is not capable
of importing old data.  You could probably skip the front-end (MRTG)
and call the back-end (rateup) directly.  This would not be my
favourite approach.

Actually I am currently "importing" old data.  It is not from an
oracle database but that doesn't matter. The data is coming from
a unix server with limited access to the outside world.  I collect
statistics on it every minute and ftp this data to somewhere else.
On this other machine, I import it into an RRD (round robin database). 

HTH
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