[Tutor] Web GUI for a network management tool

[Eric Walstad]

Hi Thanos,

Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Thanos Panousis" <pthanos at gmail.com> wrote
> 
>> The time has come to write some kind of gui for it, so that graphs,
>> visualizations and configuration options are exposed to non
>> developers. Do you think that a web app frame work like turbogears 
>> is
>> appropriate in my case?
> 
> Graphs etc on web apps can be problematic, but thats true of
> all web apps regardless of framework. You may need to hunt
> for some graphing code to suit the framework you choose
> - or maybe a Java applet.

I'm not sure how complex your charts/graphs need to be.  Here's a simple
Django solution for simple HTML Bar Charts that may give you some ideas
for solving the problem:
<http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/44/>
and an example of what it looks like:
<http://flickr.com/photos/postneo/405239750/in/photostream/>

I'd be interested to hear about how you ultimately solve the problem
when you are done.

Best,

Eric.