[drraw-users] documentation, FAQ, wiki.. (Was: Trying to create a Grouped Dashboard with Templates Style Regex)

[David Nolan]

On 12/19/06, Eric Law <ericslaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let it be known, however, that no other tool allows me to construct
> dashboards with the power of drraw.cgi.  Most work in this arena
> favors simplifying your options (thus limiting what you can do) versus
> actually making it easier to create dashboards.
>

I absolutely agree with this.  At LISA earlier this month there was an
rrdtool BOF (Hosted by Tobias Oetiker himself...) and I mentioned how
much I love drraw...  When most of the room hadn't heard of it I
hooked my laptop to the projector and put up this graph:
http://stats.net.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/drraw/drraw.cgi?Mode=view;Graph=1105738323.7408

Everyone was amazed by the complexity of the graph.  Then I told them
that the graph is maintained by our network engineers, not me, and
they liked it even more.

> Drraw.cgi is not so simple I can put it in front of customers, but
> it's leagues beyond what I have in any other case (which is lots of
> custom stuff on top or next to cricket).

Can you provide some use case scenarios for what sorts of graphs your
customers need to be able to create?  Do they need to define their own
templates, or just their own dashboards using templates you provide?

-David