RE: [cricket-users] Trending data types

From: trygvelu@bug.itea.ntnu.no
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 09:38:37 PDT


From: trygvelu@bug.itea.ntnu.no

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Berg, Ivan wrote:
> I think you are missing the concept of cricket and rrdtool.

well, maybe not entirely

> Cricket grabs ***SNMP****(important) data from devices and tells RRDTool to
> graph this data. So to answer your question, being able to do these things
> depends on the SNMP capabilities of your device. I haven't used the

Cricket can currently process far more data than just from SNMP;
ds-sources can also be of type EXEC,FILE or FUNC. If you just make an
external script that collects the data so it can be stored in a RRD, there
is no reason why cricket can't handle them. Numerous such scripts already
exist. In fact, if the data is somehow related to your network, then the
cricket tree is a totally appropriate place to put it.

Look in cricket documentation and cricket/util dir for examples of how to
make external scripts to cricket.

cheers,

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TL

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