Been busy with assignments recently so haven't had as much time as I would have liked to be working on my honours and writing weekly reports.

This week I decided to use collectd as my data collector for the moment so that I can collect data via the collectd network protocol and via SNMP as well. I have started writing a module that sits inside collectd that will write out the collected data into a backend storage system that my network monitor will use.

Next job is to pick a useful and flexible data store to use.