Flashy (flash) graphs...

[troffasky]

I think SVG+Javascript graphs [like in Tomato and m0n0wall] would be better than Flash.

[nibb]

The OSS point is more of a philosophy, however there is some validity. What if they maker of the software decides to change their licencing from something that's developer and community friendly to one that's more revenue oriented? Not a fun place to be.

I can see the value of flashy fancy graphs, but I don't think that should be a focus for a while. I feel that Zabbix's "not so pretty" look is it's advantage, that means people are focused on making the damm thing work!

However with that said you can create some customized frontends with openchart or Jasper Reports and then let the pointy hair people see them. :-)

Yes, non computers persons look at the stats and just look me back as to asking me to explain it. I cannot imagine if I must show it to allot of persons the time it would take me to explain to each one. Adding something userfriendly is never to much.

I just need how to make nicer stats, maybe export data to some plugin that generates them?

[richlv]

i'm not in the mood of writing a lengthy and insightful post about why using flash would be bad. i could get rms on you or something ;>

one in-the-sky idea i have is some api referencing interface that exposes data in an easy to analyze schema, that is further integrated with something like r with a gui on top of it.
notice i said "api referencing", which means we'll probably not live long enough to see this all