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List:       maradns-list
Subject:    Re: Responses to emails recently sent to the list
From:       Joe Cooper <joe () swelltech ! com>
Date:       2002-02-23 22:07:00
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D Richard Felker III wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:17:39AM -0600, Joe Cooper wrote:
> 
>>Jaakko Niemi wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Mole:
>>>>
>>>>MaraDNS does not support syslog(), much less SNMP calls (and
>>>>considering the last rish of SNMP security bugs, this may be
>>>>a good thing).  I am adding this fact to the MaraDNS man page
>>>>for the next rlease.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Um, mrtg does not need SNMP for anything. It just needs a piece
>>>that polls values and gives them to it. This should not be that
>>>hard to implement safely. Just FYI.
>>>
>>mrtg is generally used for SNMP results graphing.  rrdtool on the other 
>>hand is designed to be used as a graphing engine for many types of date. 
>> It is easily scriptable, and uses the same nifty round-robin database 
>>of MRTG.
>>
> 
> imo, toys like this should wait until after stability and
> functionality issues are addressed.

Oh, I agree, Sam probably shouldn't be (and I doubt anyone could 
convince him to be) worrying about charts and graphs--but I figure if 
anyone /is/ going to head down that path, they might as well start with 
the right tool for the job rather than the wrong one.  I was just 
pointing out the obvious that mrtg probably isnt't the right choice for 
this type of task, if not using SNMP data.
-- 
Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
http://www.swelltech.com
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