"Spackle is designed to be a flexible client/server architecture for the
gathering and displaying of statistics, primarily suited to monitoring
servers. It's written in PHP and bash shell script, uses RRDtool  for stats
logging, and PostgreSQL for the server-side database. (soon to support MySQL
I had this up and running within a few hours. The hardest bit was getting
PostgreSQL running as it's been a few years since I used it. I had a bit of a
problem getting it to work on rh6.2 boxes but I documented the changes here:
Web interface is simple, but functional. It has a simple way of distributing
the monitoring scripts (which could be compromised but I digress), and the

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From: Niall O Broin [mailto:niall@linux.ie]
There's been some discussion just now on the ILUG IRC channel about OSI and
protocol layers. This reminded me of a poster produced by Wandel &
Goltermann (manufactureres of fine protocol decoders and testers) which
illustrates this admirably. The poster is in the form of a PDF file and to
be honest, is best appreciated if you have access to a HP DesignJet or
somesuch device. Wandel & Goltermann has now become/been taken over by
acterna and I couldn't find the poster there. However, it's available at
http://www.pb.bib.de/~dozloh/fachinfo/sdn_16/decodes.pdf and some of you ma
The top of the poster refers you to www.decodes.com for a more up to date
online copy of the poster. However, www.decodes.com now is redirected to the