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List:       nanog
Subject:    Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)
From:       "Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog () subspacefield ! org>
Date:       2007-01-26 3:15:36
Message-ID: 20070126031536.GD15003 () subspacefield ! org
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:12:01PM -0400, Ray Burkholder wrote:
> I've done some work with Cricket and have figured out a way to get at it's
> schema.  I've been looking at mating Cricket' s 'getter and schema with
> Drraw and genDevConfig tools and putting a Mason based HTML wrapper around
> the whole thing so people can pick and choose the components of charts they
> want to see (per chart), (per page).  And by filling in simple web forms, it
> would be easy to generate command lines for genDevConfig to go out and
> create the customized SNMP queries that are needed for Dial-Peers, Cisco's
> Quality of Service, etc.

This seems to be a better solution than CGIs and web forms, both from
a "graphic designer" point of view as well as KISS point of view.
Unfortunately it's not currently compatible with HTTP/S and HTML, but
any major improvement that was also simpler would have to be.

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