ITP: Cricket (was Re: ITP: RRDTool)
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 06:11:21PM +0200, Mika Fischer wrote:
> If noone is already packaging it, I'll do.
>
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> RRD is the Acronym for Round Robin Database. RRD is a system to store and
> display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature,
> server load average). It stores the data in a very compact way that will not
> expand over time, and it presents useful graphs by processing the data to
> enforce a certain data density. It can be used either via simple wrapper
> scripts (from shell or Perl) or via frontends that poll network devices and
> put a friendly user interface on it.
On that note, I just noticed that nobody has packaged Cricket, an excellent
Perl-based frontend to RRDtool, so I will. Let me know when your package is
finished so that I can test them together.
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Cricket is a high performance, extremely flexible system for monitoring trends
in time-series data. Cricket was expressly developed to help network managers
visualize and understand the traffic on their networks, but it can be used all
kinds of other jobs, as well.
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Cricket is also released under the GPL.
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- Matt
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