Overview
This project aims to provide MoinMoin integration with RRDtool to extend the wiki into the network management realm.
A wiki makes a great tool for network administration, now you can extend your documentation and change management to include those pretty RRD graphs every SysAdmin likes to generate.
System Requirements
RRDTool (Including Python Bindings)
Installation
Installation is fairly simple, you just need to download the rrdGraph.py macro and copy it into your moinmoin macro directory, if you are unsure of where that is take a look at the MacroMarket page on the MoinMoin website.
Examples
The following graphs were created using the Mailgraph daemon (http://mailgraph.schweikert.ch).
rrdGraph macro used to generate graph
It may look complicated but its basically one long function call (equivalent to rrdtool graph) with arguments separated by semicolons and quotes removed.
[[rrdGraph(daily.png;--imgformat=PNG;--title=Daily Traffic;--rigid;--base=1000;--height=120;--width=500;--alt-autoscale-max;--lower-limit=0;--vertical-label="bits per second";--color=SHADEA#173B5B;--color=SHADEB#173B5B;DEF:inoctets=cisco.rrd:input:AVERAGE;DEF:outoctets=cisco.rrd:output:AVERAGE;CDEF:cdefa=inoctets,8,*;CDEF:cdeff=outoctets,8,*;AREA:cdefa#00CF00:Inbound;GPRINT:cdefa:LAST: Current\:%8.2lf%s;GPRINT:cdefa:AVERAGE:Average\:%8.2lf%s;GPRINT:cdefa:MAX:Maximum\:%8.2lf%s\n;LINE1:cdeff#002A97:Outbound;GPRINT:cdeff:LAST:Current\:%8.2lf%s;GPRINT:cdeff:AVERAGE:Average\:%8.2lf%s;GPRINT:cdeff:MAX:Maximum\:%8.2lf%s)]]
Design Requirements
Simple insert of RRDtool generated graphs inline with wiki content.
Provide an easy to use interface to other RRDtool operations.
- Restrict access to admin specified rrd databases (may allow rrd attachments in future for snapshot data).
Other Links of Interest
Switch - Network Monitoring and Analysis
