Use MRTG to graph new posts and online users!
 

Well this isn't really a hack so let's post it here.

If you're the type of person who would prefer everything had a graph, this "hack" is for you.

Example: http://flamevault.com/mrtg/board

The installation of this is a bit hardcore if you don't have MRTG, Perl, or a common Perl module (DBI) installed. A bit of Unix background could help too (oh yeh, it only works on Unix/Linux/etc servers for now).

See attachment for scripts, mrtg config, and installation instructions. I'll help as much as I can if you're having trouble installing so feel free to ask.

Updated 12-01-03 to fix errors discussed below!

I've actually got this working now! Sheesh, lots of dependancies, although that was the first time I have used cpan - updates things nice and easily.

I had to use force install DBD::mysql because for some reason it couldn't connect to mysql with the username and password it was trying with during testing.

Few tweaks and typo removals means I should now be working ok: http://forums.utassault.net/mrtg/vb/

Many thanks for this hack.

I installed this.. no problem at all getting it to work.. but it seems to report way more sessions than really exist.

For example, my forum reports "Most users ever online was 55 on 04-24-2003 at 11:39 PM.", however, my mrtg stats page says "Max Online 66.0 Users"

Any idea on why this happens and/or how to fix it?

Well done - excellent work but I'm also getting incorrect values

274 users online is being reported as 146 :(

Wow... good work integrating vB with MRTG...

this is great feedback to administrators and users (if needed) .. however, can the images be directly linked (embedded) into another page?

for sures



http://www.fu-1.net/mrtg/posts-day.png

That's so cool...

I know - I wish I knew why the online users graph data is wrong :(

Anybody heard from the author?


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Looks a bit complicated to me :p