It is fairly easy to get started with and is a powerful language for many purposes. We will also be introducing the Simple Network Management Protocol, which we will use for data collection. Time permitting, students may be able to modify some of the monitoring software to monitor items such as room temperatures rather than computer traffic counts on a network. We will be bringing up mrtg on our own web server during the Institute. The mrtg software creates a series of gif file, one of which is shown below, showing the collected data at intervals of whatever the collection schedule is.
Additional charts show weekly, monthly and yearly summaries of the data.
To view the visualizations from the completed project, click here .