Cacti, Spine, and Python

[eholz1]

hello All,

I have a greater appreciation for cacti. and what it does, and its performance.
I have a python program that uses the pythonping module, i.e. the ping method.

I can run this on 100 devices - a ping only - this takes about a minute or two.
cacti does the same thing in from 5 to 10 seconds - this will be complements of spine.

Is there a way I could use spine with python?

Thanks,
eholz1

[TheWitness]

Well, I'm flattered. One thing you could do is checkout the spine source code and contribute back a "ping only" enhancement, then you could call that from your python script

[cigamit]

I would assume its because your script is running the pings one at a time, while spine is being run with multiple processes and threads, so it's doing it massively in parallel.

[TheWitness]

Yes, of course, and python can do that too.