Routers2
The Routers2 software provides a web-based front-end for Tobi Oetiker's MRTG software. When MRTG is run in combination with the RRDtool database, it requires a front-end application to present the data graphically.
Articles on installation of MRTG/RRD with the Routers2 frontend have appeared in WebPro News, Security Pro news, Network Newz, and the Beau Monday blog.
Routers2 may well now be the most widely-used third-party frontend available, since of the other available frontends, 14all (the default frontend) does not make any use of the RRDtool features and mrtg-rrd development has been inactive since 2003 . No exact statistics for this can be determined, of course, although Google reports approximately 80,000 Routers2 installations visible on the Internet . Equivalent statistics for other frontends are not as easy to obtain due to the design of their output. The bbmrtg software (which links Big Brother to MRTG) has built-in support for Routers2, as they also believe Routers2 to be the most current of the available frontends in Oct 2005
History
Steve Shipway wrote Routers2 in 2000 in order to display the MRTG data in a more flexible way after moving to the RRDtool backend database.
In 2008, a BoF session on MRTG/RRD/Routers2 was held at LISA08
Distribution
Routers2 is a CGI script written in Perl known to run on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS, when called from Microsoft IIS or Apache.
The software is included in the 'Open Innovations MRTG Bundle Install for Windows' .
It is licensed as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Usage
This script provides a generic web-based frontend for the popular MRTG system, generating the graph images on-demand via the RRDtool library to reduce server load. It also extends the functionality of MRTG by allowing the user to define additional user-defined graphs and summary pages by combining previously defined MRTG metrics, and supports authentication and authorisation in order to allow more granular control of access.