honestly I dont know from what I heard these Celerra Manager stats arent kept in the NASDB and it uses a file format that wouldnt be easy to read from a 3rd party app chances are its going to change in the next major DART code anyway  the nice thing about DPA is that you can setup jobs so it runs reports automatically and email them, or saves them to a dir or publishs them to a web server  if you you want is some graphs about interface I/O I wouldnt re-invent the wheel for that you can use SNMP and MRTG chances are that someone in your organization is already running MRTG (the network guys like it for routers) - for them it would be only a couple of lines in the config to accomdate you and since it compacts the data it doesnt use much space  Rainer
Hello guys,  looking for ideas on how to monitor network performance on my datamovers. I need to gather historical data for charting with perl, i was thinking of forking a process in perl that will run server_stat -table net ..and probably set it to some interval number. I will pipe that data to a flat file, pick it up from CS and graph it with GD::Graph.  I am not going to mess with mySQL nor Celerra ECC agents, simple flat files will do just fine.  How do you do it ? 
How do you monitor network stats ?