[drraw-users] new user

[Robert Jeppesen]

Brian Johnson skrev:
> Hello all,
> 
> Apologies for this question -- I'm somewhat new to drraw, netflow, 
> rrdtool, etc. I inherited a set up that was put together 2 years ago and 
> have several questions and looked through the list archives and didn't 
> see the answers. If I missed something, please let me know.
> 
> 1) when I go to the drraw.cgi screen, I see where previous graphs are 
> set up, along with a couple of dashboards. There's a folder for "All 
> Templates", but it's empty. I saw the example on the wiki, but I'm 
> afraid it didn't mean much to me. Is there a "create your template" 
> how-to somewhere? Are there templates to download?
> 
> 2) I've been asked by my employer to find out how many connections/much 
> bandwidth is going to a particular site, with the connections being much 
> more preferred. Is this something that drraw can do? 
> 
> If this information is already out there, I'm not opposed to being told 
> so, with a link to the information, but I've spent some time looking and 
> didn't see anything.
> 
Brian,
You have to create your own templates for the kind of graph you prefer 
to use. You don't have to make templates. Copying an existing graph and 
change the rrd also works well.

drraw is a front-end to rrd-tools. It can show the date that another 
program / script's saves in rrd files.

So you need rrd-tools and some scripts to collect the information you want.

Does your router/firewall support snmp and does the MIB have the 
information you want (connections per destination /bandwidth). Bandwidth 
  exist in the standard MIB but not connections per destination. If you 
have a cisco router that supports netflow, you can use flow-tools to 
collect the wanted information.

/Robert