[112212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sorta-OT graph snmp values
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken A)
Fri Feb 20 15:18:51 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:17:51 -0600
From: Ken A <ka@pacific.net>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
In-Reply-To: <20090220114006.8C18B3C0@resin17.mta.everyone.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
GD::Graph::lines does this easily, and there are plenty of examples to
work from. (might be too much a pain if you don't have GD available)
Ken
Scott Weeks wrote:
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> First, please don't respond with "use mrtg, rrdtool, cricket, etc, etc." Silly 'layer 8' reasons are keeping me from being able to utilize these tools at this time.
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> I have a need to graph SNMP values created by using a simple shell script on a Solaris box. I have output like this:
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> 02-20-2009_08:00 39 19 20 18
> 23 19 18 18
> ........ <snip 9 rows of data w/o the date> ........
> 26 20 20 17
> 02-20-2009_09:00 23 20 22 18
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> I want to find a program that will allow me to graph the dates on the x-axis and the values on the y-axis, but I need it to be programmable such that I can run it from cron and send the graph to a directory as a jpeg, gif or png file. I tried using gnuplot, but I can't seem to make it work on outputting only to a file. Even using "set output graph.png". Can someone push me in the right direction?
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> I'm not sure, but this should probably be discussed off-list...
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> Thanks,
> scott
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