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[Patrick May]

try cacti (a php solution) or munin

~ patrick


On Jul 16, 2007, at 9:37 AM, csnyder wrote:

> I've had this idea in the back of my head to do a project that
> systematically tracks values embedded in web or email reports. For
> instance, I get logwatch emails from the servers I admin, and each
> time one of those comes in I'd like to extract the disk free space and
> put it into a round-robin database. Or I want to track the rendering
> time for various key pages in a CMS.
>
> The problem is that the value isn't always in the same place. It might
> be a few lines down because of alerts or content that precede it. Or
> it might look different some days (ending in GB rather than MB). It's
> possible that some combination of regex and recurrence number ( 5th
> instance of /[0-9]*(MB|BG)/ ) could work, but it seems messy.
>
> We all probably do a little of this on an ad hoc basis, scraping
> values out of websites and whatnot. Does anyone do it a lot? What kind
> of tools do you use? Is Perl better suited to the task? Or sed+awk?
> Does anyone know of a system (preferably php) that does this in the
> general case?
>
> TIA, y'all.
>
> -- 
> Chris Snyder
> http://chxo.com/
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