Options for creating a statistics screen on a Mac with Python?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Phillip B Oldham schrieb:
> I've come into possession of a mac mini and a large LCD tv at the
> office. I'd like to set it up in the corner to pull statistics from
> our various servers (load, uptimes, etc) and display them in a
> graphical format, full-screen, with a reasonable refresh rate (say
> every 30 seconds). There will be quite a few statistics, and we'll be
> adding new servers over time, and since there won't be the option to
> scroll a full-screen web-page won't work.
> 
> What then would be my options to create a full-screen display of
> statistics, and an attractive graphical way, using Python on OS X?

matplotlib should serve you well. Or you use some web-based solution 
with a javascript-based chart library. This might be even a bit easier.


Diez