Bug 116863
Summary: | RFE: RRDtool should be available along MRTG | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Petri T. Koistinen <thoron> |
Component: | mrtg | Assignee: | Miloslav Trmač <mitr> |
Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | jbourne, link, redhat, reuben-redhatbugzilla |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-12-18 15:30:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Petri T. Koistinen
2004-02-25 20:58:37 UTC
I would also request this. rrdtool is released under the GPL and there is a spec file which works fine with FC2 with a small amount of modification. Count me in on this also... +1 RRDtool is a generic backend with multiple frontends that together make up complete replacements for MRTG. In particular, we use the Cricket frontend (on RHEL, not Fedora, but...) in preference to MRTG. RRDTool has bindings for multiple languages (can be used from Perl, TCL, etc. in addition to C), and provides a rich feature set for data series storage and graphing (not tied to network monitoring). It's main drawback is that it's a slight pain to build correctly from source; so having it prebuilt and included in Fedora and RHEL would alleviate this problem, enable out-of-box use of the many frontends, and add a rich but targetted new tool for building new applications. *** Bug 130089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The only rationale in this bug so far talks about the Cricket frontend. Assuming this frontend is not included in Fedora Core, how useful is RRDtool standing alone? As far as I know, the distribution does not include libraries not used by any application within the distribution, and RRDtool seems to be similar to libraries in this regard. RRDTool does include a reusable (.so) library, yes. However RRDtool as such is a framework for managing data series; it includes command-line utilities for creating Round-Robin Databases, managing and massaging this data, and visualizing it in various usefull ways; in addition to the language bindings for Perl, Python, and TCL (and of course the native C API). As an example, the Cricket network monitoring system uses a Perl wrapper around the command-line utilities instead of the Perl modules or C API for some of its functions. Quite apart from the various frontends such as MRTG and Cricket -- and there are quite a few of them -- it's extremely usefull for managing time-series data from the command line (or the bundled CGI wrapper). See e.g. <http://www.rrdtool.org/manual/index.html> for details. Fedora Extras doesn't seem to have it, but there's a set in Dag's repo that might be a decent starting point. Oh, and BTW, as I mentioned, I'd file an RFE for this against RHEL because the Cricket frontend is one of our core applications for our RHEL servers; except the sane path for new packages into RHEL these days is by way of Fedora Core. *** Bug 130089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Thanks for your comments. Let's start with getting RRDTool to Fedora Extras, in bug 143306. |