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-Linux Forum 2007 Tutorial
+LISA 2007 Tutorial
 
 RRDtool as a Communication Tool
 ===============================
-A tutorial by Tobias Oetiker
+A half day tutorial by Tobias Oetiker
 
 Abstract
 --------
 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
+time-series data in the networking area. RRDtool 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. 
+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
+monitoring applications. An emphasis will be put on presentation aspects.
+The best data is worth only as much as your bosses and customers understand
 and appreciate the graphs you create with it.
 
 Attendees are expected to have some scripting experience.
 
+Topics
+-------
+* RRDtool Overview
+
+  * Problems to be solved
+  * Round Robin Database setup
+  * Data acquisition
+  * Graphing
+
+* Programming with RRDtool
+
+  * The command line interface
+  * The pipe interface
+  * The Perl api
+
+* In-Depth Graphing 
+
+  * Concepts
+  * Simple graphs
+  * The joy of RPN
+  * Graph disassembly
+  * How to make graphs talk
+
+* Scaling RRDtool 
+
+  * The RRD file format
+  * Optimizing OS interaction
+  * Tweaking Linux for speed
+
 About the Speaker
 -----------------
 
 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.
+administrator by vocation. For ten years he has been working for the
+Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, providing students
+and staff with a deluxe Unix workstation environment. Last year he
+started his own company OETIKER+PARTNER AG, running Unix servers for
+industry customers, improving his pet open source projects MRTG,
+RRDtool, and SmokePing, and applying these tools to solve the customers'
+problems.
 
 In November 2006, Tobias received the prestigious SAGE Outstanding
 Achievement Award for his work on MRTG and RRDtool.