Linux Forum 2007 Tutorial

RRDtool as a Communication Tool
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A tutorial by Tobias Oetiker

Abstract
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Over the last few years RRDtool has become the standard method for handling
time-series data in the networking area. It takes care of all the work
related to data storage and presentation. Many users only access
RRDtool through some front end Application like Cacti or Cricket. 

In this two hour tutorial you will learn how RRDtool works from a
programmers point of view, and how you can use it to write your own custom
Monitoring applications. An emphasis will be put on presentation aspects.
The best data is worth only as much as you bosses and customers understand
and appreciate the graphs you create with it.

Attendees are expected to have some scripting experience.

About the Speaker
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Tobias Oetiker is an electrical engineer by education and a system
administrator by vocation. For the last ten years he has been working for
the ETH Zurich, making sure students and staff get ahead with their
computers. Last year he started to work for his own company OETIKER+PARTNER,
spending amongst other things much more payed time on his pet open source
projects MRTG, RRDtool, and SmokePing.

In November 2006, Tobias received the prestigious SAGE Outstanding
Achievement Award for his work on MRTG and RRDtool.

Find out more about the Speaker on http://tobi.oetiker.ch