[mrtg] Re: Plain mrtg or RRDtool ?

[Paul C. Williamson]

Resources.  If you need to monitor a lot of elements, 
MRTG alone is not the tool.  RRDTool needs to be 
running as the backend storage medium.  MRTG is ok as 
the collection medium, but there are others that do a 
fine job as well.

More than two items in a graph.  MRTG does 2.  No 
more, no less.  You can make it look like it's doing 
one, but I can guarantee you need two.

Pretty colors based on threshold.  RRDTool has way 
more graphing capabilities.

Storing non-integer values (what are they called, real 
numbers?).

Storing negative numbers.

There are others, but those are the high points.

Paul

>>> "Schatz, Daniel" <Daniel.Schatz at tfeurope.com> 02/22/02 07:01 AM >>>
Hy,

maybe this is obvious, but i try to find out under which circumstances you
would use plain mrtg and in which situation s.o. would choose RRDtool.
What is the big advantage using the one or the other ?

Thank you.
Daniel


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