[rrd-users] Splitting database and graphing functionality

[Duncan.Innes at virginmoney.com]

Hi,

I've been using rrdtool for a number of years now, but have recently had 
it come under the spotlight from our IT Security team.

As a bank, we have a strong lean towards reducing the number of installed 
packages to reduce the possible attack surface for any potential issues.

To this end, I have been asked why we need to be installing a bunch of 
graphics, font and rendering packages on all our servers when all we're 
looking to do is record data in RRD's most of the time.

Is it possible/feasible to split the database and rendering functions of 
rrdtool into separate packages?  For example a base rrdtool package 
containing just RRD management functionality and a modular rrdtool-graph 
containing the rendering & graphing functions.  This would allow security 
conscious users to deploy the base rrdtool package to record data across 
an estate of machines and then install the extra rrdtool-graph package on 
a central machine to handle the graph rendering.

Does this sound realistic?  Achievable? Worthwhile?

Thanks

Duncan

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