[rrd-users] rrdtool or equivalent on an asp.net hosted server

[Steven Saner]

On 04/03/2013 01:04 PM, marthter wrote:
> Although I am much more familiar and comfortable with Linux, my company 
> has an asp.net hosted web server solution.  On this hosted site I need 
> to display some live graphs from several remote devices (perhaps 5 
> minutes delay acceptable, ideally less delay, i.e. generated/refreshed 
> on page load).  The data  for the graphs could be pushed to the web 
> server periodically via FTP, or possibly pulled somehow from some other 
> server (where the real data from the field is coming in to), when a user 
> logs in.

I have done something a little like this. In our case we have an
internal web application and I needed to be able to include graph images
in that web application that are derived from RRDs.

I set up Apache on my Linux host that generates the RRDs (using MRTG)
and developed a fairly simple mod_perl application that takes a request
with various parameters, it then uses those parameters to find the
correct RRD and generate a graph image, which it then returns to the client.

So, then in the web application I just put <img src="..."> tags at the
right place with the src="..." filled out with the right request. When
the web browser processes this tag it makes a request to the mod_perl
server and gets that image from there.

Not sure if this works in your situation, but it sounded close enough
that I would share my solution.

Steve

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