Operation Manual
13.11.3 For More Information
RRDtool is a very complex tool with a lot of sub-commands and command line options.
Some of them are easy to understand, but you have to really study RRDtool to make it
produce the results you want and ne-tune them according to your liking.
Apart form RRDtool's man page (man 1 rrdtool) which gives you only basic in-
formation, you should have a look at the RRDtool homepage [http://oss.oetiker
.ch/rrdtool/]. There is a detailed documentation [http://oss.oetiker.ch/
rrdtool/doc/index.en.html] of the rrdtool command and all its sub-
commands. There are also several tutorials [http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
tut/index.en.html] to help you understand the common RRDtool workow.
If you are interested in monitoring network trafc, have a look at MRTG [http://
oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/]. It stands for Multi Router Trafc Grapher and can
graph the activity of all sorts of network devices. It can easily make use of RRDtool.
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