Subject: Re: Too much coffee and RRDTool/Cricket/MRTG
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 13:40:15 AKDT
On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:05, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
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> How can there be such a thing as too much coffee?
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> The saga of the stats aside, MRTG and Cricket are both great packages.
>
> MRTG is simple and it is the only standby.
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> Cricket offers some neat stuff, but it is a more complex package. The
> configuration tree offers alot of flexibility, very useful with large
> networks, and multiple admins handling different parts of it. But, it
> makes it a fair bit more difficult to configure.
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> If you want to graph the in and the out, MRTG is lightweight, easy to
> configure and just works.
>
> If you want to track and graph the in and the out, and say transmit
> and receive errors (or any other useful/related data) on the same
> graph, or you have several hundred devices/ports Cricket starts
> looking *real* good.
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> Also, SUM data (say you need to report the aggregate data flow
> into/out of a facility over multiple network links/routers) does not
> require nearly the level of hackage and workarounds with Cricket as it
> does with MRTG.
>
> --
> I route, therefore you are.
Wow, exactly 12 hours later :)
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