[rrd-users] Is it possible to Access an RRD Remotely (e.g. by connecting to that machine's RRDTool over a socket)

[Bernard Li]

Hi Micuel:

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Miguel Sevilla <msevilla79 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All, is it possible to connect access an RRD (e.g. Cacti RRD) from a
> different machine over the network? (e.g. connect to the RRDTool over TCP or
> something)
>
> More context:  We have Cacti (RRD backend) deployed on a linux machine and
> want to be able to query the Cacti RRD database from a windows machine.
> However, we don't know if this is possible without us writing custom server
> code to serve as the interface to the linux machine's RRDTool.

Take a look at RRD Server, perhaps it'll help:

http://www.mrtg.org/rrdtool/doc/rrdtool.en.html

Cheers,

Bernard