[mrtg] Re: MRTG 3?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today David Mitchell wrote:

>
> Paul
> <snip>
> >There's no need for a "hybrid" solution, that's what 14all does already.
> >If I want a specific rrd's file information, I just put a link like so...
>
> >From what I understand that is not what 14all does - you pass 14all the name
> of an object, the CGI then scans the config file to find out the info for
> that object - EG Where the RRD file is, what type of graph is required, the
> units, scaling, maximum values etc  - all of which takes a substantial time,
> a more efficient method would be to scan the static information once and
> then generate a line calling the CGI with all the relevant information
> passed directly to the CGI. I think the previous version of 14all went
> partway towards this by generating a 'cache' file of the config information.
>
> So the CGI would be called like
>
> http://webserver/cgi-bin/simple.cgi?rrd=<path to RRD file>&png=<graph
> type>&colours=<hexmask>&lines=[I][O]&showmax=[I][O]...
>
> basically a parameter for every option that might be set in the CFG file so
> all the CGI does is convert these to an RRDs Call - no CFG file scanning at
> all.

David by using speedy cgi you can save all that config scanning ...
it speeds up things DRAMATICALLY

I think rrd-mrtg.cgi (see the mrtg website) does this natively ...

tobi
>
> David
>
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