diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'retiolum/scripts/adv_graphgen/README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | retiolum/scripts/adv_graphgen/README.md | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/retiolum/scripts/adv_graphgen/README.md b/retiolum/scripts/adv_graphgen/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..082e0f2b --- /dev/null +++ b/retiolum/scripts/adv_graphgen/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +The folder contains a number of scripts which provide a convenient way to +generate advanced graphs from the SIGUSR2 output of tinc. + +it currently contains the following files: + +sanitize.sh: + wrapper arond parse.py which filters the syslog file for all tinc + related lines and removes the status informations: + this means that + <code> + May 19 20:40:44 servarch dnsmasq[5382]: reading /etc/resolv.conf + May 19 20:41:38 servarch tinc.retiolum[4780]: Error looking up pa-sharepoint.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de port 655: Name or service not known + </code> + becomes + <code> + Error looking up pa-sharepoint.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de port 655: Name or service not known + </code> + and so on. + It also provides a wrapper around graphviz which automagically + generates graphs from the produced graph file + +parse.py: + reads from stdin the sanitized syslog file and prints a valid dot file + from the given output. + The parser module may also produce any other output (e.g. for dns + entries and so on) you will need to actually read and modify the source + in order to be able to do this. ~May the source be with you~ + |