zhang@bu-ast.bu.edu (Zhang Yun Fei) said:
Zhang> I notice there is quite a collection of tools written for
Zhang> "real-time" moniroing of the network status. However, I did
Zhang> not come across on the application which polls network device
Zhang> (say via snmp) and store the polled information for
Zhang> statistical analysis later.
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Zhang> My question is whether such tkined applications is already
Zhang> existing somewhere and/or whether such application is
Zhang> desirable in network management?
Yes, this is desirable in network management. There is no support for
this in the scripts contained in the tkined and scotty distribution,
but it is very easy to write scotty script to poll snmp variables and
write them into a file or somewhere else.
A generic package to obtain network statistics must define how you
store statistics (flat files, a database) and how you configure the
polling process. Patrick Weemeeuw has started some work on this,
although he will not have anything for general consumption. You may
contact him as <Patrick.Weemeeuw@kulnet.KULeuven.ac.be>.
Juergen