[rrd-users] Re: Front-end suggestions ? - comments

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 2:16 am, James Schnack wrote:
> Thanks a lot to Don and Mark for their insight. I will keep in mind your
> opinions & suggestions.
>
> I have some questions regarding Mark's comments:
> >-  read the tutorials from Alex van den Bogaerdt  .  and then re-read them
> >(heh)
>
> I have. And I have.  ;-)
>
> >-  I found that it was best for me to write my own frontend to rrdtool.
>
> What was the best way you found to do that ? Did you use rrdcgi ? Or maybe
> the RRDs module and "regular" perl cgi scripts ? (This sounds to me as more
> efficient and orderly way to do it.)

I like to roll my own, but I have seen a system where rrdcgi was used with 
mysql  and an authentication system to allow users to create their own 
"favorite" graphs

>
> >- Each server/metric combination is its own rrd file
>
> Ok. I like that.
>
> >- alarms - this is likely a function of the data collector, not rrdtool,
>
> Mmmm, yes, you're right. So I guess I could include threshold checking in
> my data-collecting perl scripts, which will be using 'snmpget' and 'rrdtool
> update' to do the job. Does this make sense ?

I would look at  Net::SNMP if you are collecting a lot of values



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