Re: One script for many data items

In this case, I'd like to advise a two step approach.
Step 1: Poll the data and put them into some intermediate store (e.g. a file, a
database table)
Step 2: Poll the data from that store.
This latter one is the "usual" Data Input Method associated with a graph etc. pp.
The first step can be put as an initial script being run directly from crontab
or by some single Cacti data source which needs not to be associated with any graph.

I once implemented a similar approach to fetch data from a XEN virtualization
host. But there's only pure code, no docs ATM
Reinhard

On 28.09.2012 08:52, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I'm polling iptables every 5 minutes to collect usage data for many rules. 
> (For example, one input and one output rule in the FORWARD table for each 
> DHCP client to get that client's traffic.) I'd prefer to not run a separate 
> iptables query for each rule, as that's at least 4 processes per client 
> (one for iptables binary and one for the wrapper parsing script, times 2 
> for each direction). I'd prefer to run iptables-save once to collect the 
> kernel data for all the counters at once. What's the correct way to 
> organize that? How would I have the poller make one script call and then 
> point many data sources at the result?
> 
> Here's the setup I'm using now, with one script execution per iptables 
> counter.
> 
> <http://sewingwitch.com/ken/Stuff/cacti-iptables/>
> 
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