[rrd-users] on-the-fly graph generation

[Haroon Rafique]

On Today at 5:08pm, SH=>Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

SH> At the moment, my cgi scripts (all in Bash) call rrdtool graph to 
SH> create static image files as the html is generated - these are stored 
SH> in an images directory and only generated if an existing file is out 
SH> of date (using --lazy option). I'd like to re-write at least some of 
SH> this so that the html is static, and the images themselves are 
SH> generated on-the-fly as they are accessed - in part because management 
SH> is now wanting to incorporate individual graphs in other pages that I 
SH> don't have anything to do with.
SH> 
SH> Can anyone point me to some examples, or give some hints, on good ways 
SH> to do this ? Could I, for example, have '.png' as a cgi (only for a 
SH> specific folder on the server) and have a png file which is actually a 
SH> bash script that generates the graph image and then pipes it out on 
SH> stout ?
SH> 

Hi Simon,

I have written an on-the-fly graph generator (rrd.cgi):
http://haroon.sis.utoronto.ca/rrd/scripts/

There are several others at:
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/rrdworld/index.en.html

Later,
--
Haroon Rafique
<haroon.rafique at utoronto.ca>