[rrd-users] Splitting database and graphing functionality

[Simon Hobson]

Duncan.Innes at virginmoney.com wrote:

>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.

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Have you looked at using rrdcached ?
I'm not sure, but I think it may allow you to avoid installing all 
the graphing stuff on everything.

In addition, you can use it across a network, so you can collect 
stats on one machine, and store the database on a different one 
(perhaps centralising them all to one machine). That should also help 
with security since the machine doing the graphing won't need access 
to the machines generating the data - the databases would be local to 
it.


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