Free rrdtool software for linux

RRD is the Acronym for Round Robin Database. RRD is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average).
RRDTool project stores the data in a very compact way that will not expand over time, and it presents useful graphs by processing the data to enforce a certain data density.
It can be used either via simple wrapper scripts (from shell or Perl) or via frontends that poll network devices and put a friendly user interface on it.
Whats New in 1.2.21 Stable Release:
- More graph config options.
- An ABS operator for CDEF.
- Several segfaults have been fixed.
- More robust Ruby and Python extension builds.
- Netware and Win32 Makefile updates.
Whats New in 1.3 Beta 1 Development Release:
- Performance was improved with memory mapped IO, fadvise, and madvise.
- Graphing was enhanced by using cairo and pango.

Warrdcraft project is a script that creates RRDTool graphs from Battle.net statistics.

Warrdcraft is a Perl script that creates RRDTool files/ graphs out of Warcraft III Battle.net information. It supports multiple users, gateway selection, and both versions of Warcraft III (RoC/TFT).

ElvinRRD is a tool to provide a mechanism for transporting data across a network and storing it in RRD databases.

ElvinRRD is written entirely in Python and works and requires both Elvin and RRDtool.

Any Elvin producer (client) can send data for ElvinRRD to store (e.g., EDDIE-Tool); and any RRD-aware software can process the resulting RRD databases (e.g., Cricket, Cacti).

RRDStats is a Coyote Linux and BrazilFW add-on package for network traffic monitoring, link quality control, and QOS classes monitoring.
RRD Statistics project is based on RRDtool for storing data to round robin databases, and a slightly modified RRDcgi for visualizing data through a Web interface.
Main features:
- Realtime graphical statistics for bandwidth usage and link quality
- Graphical statistics of QOS priority classes usage
- Historical data stored for one week
Configuration:
All default configuration is stored in /etc/rrd.config. This version supports web based configuration and there is no need to manual configuration for basic package functionality. Just install the packages and browse to your web administration interface (by default its http://192.168.0.1:8180). There should be new link at left menu labeled "RRDStats configuration"
There are some basic options you should set up to fit your configuration. First get sure, the RRDstats package is enabled (its the first option at configuration screen). After that should you set up your line speed (just some basic approximation is good enough). The last this you should set up is your internet gateway IP address. This IP address is used to measure your internet link latency and packet loss.
Ignore other configuration options for now, save your configuration and reboot router. After your system boots up, you can browse RRD statistics.
After system startup, package is initialiazed with /etc/rc.d/pkgs/rc.rrdstats. This file start another copy of tiny webserver which listens by default on port 8080. It reads its homepage files from /var/rrd/www/ directory. After webserver startup there are also started some data gathering threads.
They read transfered data from network interfaces, QOS classes and measure link latency. These values are then stored in RRD databases. RRD databases are by default stored in /var/rrd/data/ directory
For further information how RRD databases work, please visit their homepage. Simply said RRD database has constant size, it does not grow over time and stores average data over period of time.
Last component of RRDStats package are .cgi and template files which display data from RRD databases using web interface. As said before, these files and templates are stored in /var/rrd/www/ and its subdirectories.

Serverstats is a simple tool for creating graphs using rrdtool. It does not have any features to manage the created rrd-files, so if you change anything you have to delete and recreate the files.
There is also no frontend for managing your graphs and sources. Serverstats is designed to be configured once and then run continuously. It does not depend on a database.
Main features:
- add sources using PHP-classes
- simple configuration
- all rrdtool-commands are escaped
- sources can use a cache if needed (for example to calculate per second values out of absolute values)
- multiple languages supported: en_US, de_DE
- graphs can include any defined sources and/or rrdfile
- clean HTML-source, can be styled using CSS
- support for advanced rrdtool features such as CDEF/VDEFs
- usage of cacti scripts possible (scripts from cacti release are included, hope thats ok for the devs of cacti)
- multiple RRA-definitions supported (you can select one "template" for every source)
- Errorlogger, may use syslog, write into a file or send you an email
Included Sources
- All includes sources are written for a linux-system. You may write some to run on windows, but there is nothing for windows included in the releases. Also I do not know if the sources will run on any other UNIX-system.
- users - number of users logged in
- load - current load of the system (1min, 5min and 15min) and number of (running) processes
- traffic - traffic passing through iptables-chains, needs special configuration
- mysql - save questions (per second) and number of current processes
- external - get data from external scripts (same format as cacti uses)
- memory - statistics of memory and swap
- cpu - statistics of cpu usage (thanks to Andreas Korthaus)
- apache - statistics from localhost/server-status (thanks to Andreas Korthaus)
- disk - monitor your IO-rate (kernel 2.6 only)

MRTG RRDtool Total Statistics is a PHP script that uses MRTG and RRDtool to sum up traffic monthly and yearly. Just click on any device and MRTS will show you the traffic-graphs and the statistics on how much traffic you have made during the actual/last months/year.

MRTS is short for “MRTG RRDtool Total Statistics”. It is a PHP script written by Thor Dreier that uses “MRTG and RRDtool to sum up total traffic monthly and yearly”. But why making words, if you can see the full power of MRTS in some examples: http://mrts.domainnet.dk

First thing to do is to check, which of the above mentioned packages you already have installed. No idea? Well, then you should do a simple
ls /var/db/pkg
or
pkg_info

which lists the packages, you have installed using the FreeBSD ports. If you don’t know what the FreeBSD ports are, then you probably won’t have to read on, as some basics really are required in this tutorial ;) Anyway, i’m trying to explain step by step. After you have checked your installed packages, install the packages you still need.
Net-SNMP: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp
MRTG: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg
RRDtool: /usr/ports/net/rrdtool

Some of these programs depend on various libraries (e.g. zlib, libpng, GD), but that’s the good thing: The port-install-mechanism will automatically check, if you have them or not and it will install them, if needed. Do a make && make install && make clean

in the corresponding port directories to install that specific port. Now it could take a while until all ports are compiled.

OSSP flow2rrd is a companion tool to the Flow-Tools toolkit for storing NetFlow network traffic data in an accumulating fixed-size RRDTool Round-Robin-Database (RRD) for visualization purposes.
This file is piece of OSSP flow2rrd, a tool for storing NetFlow data into an RRD which can be found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/flow2rrd/.
Enhancements:
- Created the initial version of OSSP flow2rrd.

rocap is an IP bandwidth monitoring system based on pcap.

rocap was designed to provide an easy way to monitor bandwidth between hosts, group of hosts or group of subnets, in any combination.

It was built for speed, rocap runs in user space with minimum CPU usage.

It includes a console server for telnet clients to use for administration or visualization purposes. It also outputs data for rrdtool to use for generating graphs.

roteq is free software.