rrdtool is pretty cool

Written by slug on Saturday 18 June 2005

I've been fiddling with rrdtool today, building various graphs of QuakeNet activity.

Here's the traffic of various countries, spot the netsplit (please don't whine if you're not here, only the ones with a large amount of users are tracked.)

Also created a delta graph, so we can spot nasty flood clones.

Ideally it'd work for IP addresses too, as well as for people with elite vhosts, however thats a little more work than just adding a counthost command to nterface.

Here's something for you to play with, an monitor to show if you're on or off QuakeNet.

Text mode returns either a 0 or 1, offline or online respectively.

http://webdev.quakenet.org/~slug/online/text.php?nick=slug

This mode returns a little icon:

http://webdev.quakenet.org/~slug/online/icon.php?nick=slug

eg: I'm currently

It wouldn't be complete without the customary pils version (try changing the url so it displays offline!)

We might use it in some sort of 'friends online' thing on the website eventually.

Away status isn't recorded at the moment, it may be in the future.

If you've got any ideas for website interaction with IRC (please don't say CGI:IRC as we won't do it), leave a comment.

//slug

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Pretty nice, any chance to make it work for Q-auths? :) And is it\'s usage restricted in any way? Does the script require opered access or is it just some client-side script? And do you care to show us (some of your) code?

soczol said on Wednesday 22 June 2005

I have considered Q auths, but there isn\'t a way to do O(1) lookups on auths yet on newserv, without Q9 loaded. Usage isn\'t restricted. How it works is complex, needless to say, it\'s custom QuakeNet technology, with direct access to a Newserv instance. Afraid the code won\'t be revealed any time soon.

slug said on Sunday 26 June 2005

nice script it seems indeed. Any chance it could work with user\'s idle time, so you can see whether or not the user is actually online as in chatting? something like \"online - active in past 10 minutes\"?

dopeh said on Monday 27 June 2005

Sounds a good idea. It\'d be good if something could be done about the amount of trojan drones which try dcc you stupid files/msg you with virus links etc

rt said on Sunday 10 July 2005

Would be really good if it worked on Q auths, then you could have it on the website for the Q auth, if you add only a nick and suddenly your nick is taken, then it wouldnt be much use for it.

scarface said on Sunday 10 July 2005

Any plans to develop this with anymore options? I think its a really good idea, and I use it. would be nice if it worked on Q auths, or perhaps if it could pick up on away status.

Foxy said on Monday 05 September 2005

Could you make a sort of generator so you can chose the pic background/text? tyvm :)

Ghust- said on Monday 13 March 2006

whaou, this is really good. And i really don\'t know how you can get o(1). Is it a kind of hash table on the nickname with a linked list behind (the linked list for managing collisions) ? Anyway, I just saw this feature. Really you should make your columns more visible because they are really interessting.

dinesh2 said on Friday 26 January 2007