19.7 Other Tools and the Limits of Graphic Evaluation

Apart from the tools introduced here, http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ provides further tools for the graphic evaluation of performance data. Many of these are also based on the RRDtools and round-robin databases, the consequence of which is that they are not much use for exact evaluations over several years, just like the ones described here.

Several tools, such as the current APAN[223] version, save their data in an SQL database, thus enabling long-term statistics without data loss.

PerfParse[224] is very extensive, and it stores data in a MySQL or PostgreSQL database and also includes its own wide range of evaluation tools. Because it uses various current libraries which are not included in ...

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