Re: long-term stats

Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:13:34 -0500

>In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.951017113755.471J-100000@hnets>
> "long-term stats"
> ""Wim.Holemans" <holemans@uia.ua.ac.be>" writes.
>
>> Is there a way to save the results from e.g. SNMP-MONITOR - Interface
>> load so i can make long term statistics ?
>>
>I've used my scotty code. But I don't know well SNMP techniques and a term is long(few
>months to a year) therefore I feel uneasy.
>I hope that standard long-term-statistics tools (considered data reliability, handling
>many sorts of error, logging, etc) are provided, too.
>And I'd like to know also what method is used generally for such purpose.
>
>Thanks
>

If I want to store information for a long time, I generally keep it in
a database of some sort. This can be a flat file with space or tab
separated fields, a dbm database, or a real database like sybase/oracle/informix.
As long as you have tools for extracting the data, these are all good
solutions. Also, tcl has access to all these formats either natively or
via extensions.

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