Re: OT: mrtg status (was Re: Can anyoe recomend an SNMP agent?)

[John Horn <jhorn1@desperate.ci.tucson.az.us>]

MRTG is undergoing continuing development. The most recent version of
Tobi's MRTG is considerably more advanced and feature rich than
previous versions. 3.0 is supposed to be based on RRDTool itself and
be considerably more advanced than 2.91.

We don't think Tobi has abandoned this wonderful tool.

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mike Lewinski wrote:

> From: "Joe Warren-Meeks" <joe@hole-in-the.net> Wednesday, October 25, 2000
> 9:20 AM
> 
> > > I have just discovered the wonders of mrtg. It's really neat.
> >
> > you probably want to look at Cricket, which is better ;) mrtg is
> considered
> > abandonware AFAIK..
> 
> I don't get that impression about MRTG. I know at one time the creator said
> that RRDTool would be MRTG's successor, but the website and program seem to
> be continually updated (as of Oct 13th). Also his website now says this:
> 
> "RRDtool is not a full replacement for MRTG, as it does not implement all
> the frontend and data aquisition features of MRTG. But it is an excellent
> base for building tools which work much like MRTG only better. Eventually,
> MRTG-3 will be built on top of RRDtool."
> 
> Cricket is another front end for RRDtool. But I think that MRTG has such a
> wide base of users that Tobi must have changed his mind about discontinuing
> development on it.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 



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