[148705] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Polling Bandwidth as an Aggregate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Fri Jan 20 11:19:52 2012
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On 20/01/2012 15:48, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I find using MRTG is easier than Cacti for _automation_ purposes.
It also has another slightly subtle but hugely useful advantage: the
primary index reference of a graph does not refer to an interface name or a
number, but can be defined as an arbitrary unique token. This is
ridiculously useful when it comes to 3rd party scripting and moving
customers around the place
Nick
