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On 2003-03-12-09:01:23, [email protected] wrote: > Still using MRTG? Have you read this? > http://www.mit.edu/~rbeverly/papers/rtg-lisa02.pdf > Or this? http://rtg.sourceforge.net/docs/rtgfaq.html > [...] > Seriously, how much do you risk losing over one incident like this > where you don't have the data to show your customer exactly what > happened and give them the impression that you are an amazing TCP/IP > guru? MRTG is utterly obsolete; replace it! Ok, let's call a spade a spade. I've been an "early adopter" of RTG, and am using it for traffic graphing in a production environment (in conjunction with a more tested Cricket/RRD setup, for redundancy and data verification). I think it's a nifty tool, with great potential, a clueful and responsive maintainer, and a loyal user base continually developing and contributing cool stuff. However, like any software in its infancy, RTG is far from perfect. I find it unfair to label MRTG as "utterly obsolete," nor to speak of RTG -- or any one tool -- as a drop-in replacement appropriate for all environments. Sure it doesn't scale particularly well, but there's a certain appeal to its simplicity and versatility, which I consider a key to its continued usage in the face of more robust alternatives. -a
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