Re: Graphing Tool

From: C. Tate Baumrucker (tate.baumrucker_at_callisma.com)
Date: 03/08/04

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To: Francisco Rodrigo Cortiñas <frcmsec@terra.es>

    JPGraph is a great on-the-fly PHP-based graph generation library set:
    http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/ 

    -- 
C. Tate Baumrucker
Principal Architect
Callisma
http://www.callisma.com
Francisco Rodrigo Cortiñas wrote:
>Francisco Rodrigo Cortiñas.
>CCNP, MCSE, MCDBA.
>When I worked for an ISP, I recommended them to use apps like, Big
>Sister, Netsaint and similar, to make a web interface to monitor network
>and server status. But If you have the ability to make the scripts on
>your own and don’t want the interface, then I would use only RRD to make
>the graphs; the only thing you need is: separate MRTG from RRD (or
>download it), create your own customized databases, feed them with your
>data and use them to feed the graphs. The input is customized by the
>scripts you use to feed the databases and the config of the databases
>(time intervals and others). You also could use the tools of RRD to
>extract and manipulate the data. There are a lot of manuals of RRD on
>Internet to explain how to do it.
>
>If you only need a command line utility to only plot the data, gnuplot
>and similar would be useful to you. Go and see sourceforge.net for more.
>
>If you feel you need something more, and have time to learn, I recommend
>you to use a language named TCL to make a graphic app to show the graphs
>(it isn’t too difficult, the language is very friendly, and has modules
>to make the graphs and other stuff for you). The results could be, with
>some practice, very impressive (also recommend you to search
>sourceforge.net for some examples).
>
>
>Francisco Rodrigo Cortiñas.
>CCNP, MCSE, MCDBA.
>
>-----Mensaje original-----
>De: Tony Kava [mailto:securityfocus@pottcounty.com] 
>Enviado el: martes, 02 de marzo de 2004 17:04
>Para: security-basics@securityfocus.com
>Asunto: Graphing Tool
>
>Hi.
>
>I'm looking for a command-line utility to run on a Linux platform that
>can
>generate some line or bar graphs based on basic data such as number of
>junk
>e-mail messages rejected, etc.  I do use MRTG to monitor network devices
>in
>5 minute intervals, but I'm interested in automatically generating some
>graphs based on daily totals instead of constant gauge readings.
>Perhaps I
>can adjust interval settings for MRTG (or RRDTOOL) to accomplish this.
>
>I don't need anything to generate the data, I can script that, but I'm
>interested in what others are using to generate graphs like this.  For
>example I may want to have a graph showing total junk messages rejected
>over
>the past seven days with one bar (or line point) for each day.  This is
>generally a job for a spreadsheet (i.e. Excel), but I want to automate
>this
>so I can view the output on a web interface.
>
>What tools are people using to generate such graphs?
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Tony Kava
>Senior Network Administrator
>Pottawattamie County, Iowa
>
>
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