Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-19 Thread Jesse Becker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jochen Hein joc...@jochen.org wrote: Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr writes: I would define a scaling factor or some other variable. I do want to steer away from having tool specific options unless absolutely necessary. I agree that would be a useful goal, I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-19 Thread Jeff Buchbinder
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jochen Hein joc...@jochen.org wrote: Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr writes: I would define a scaling factor or some other variable. I do want to steer away from having tool specific options unless absolutely necessary. I agree that would be a useful goal, I

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-19 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 19, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Jeff Buchbinder wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jochen Hein joc...@jochen.org wrote: Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr writes: I would define a scaling factor or some other variable. I do want to steer away from having tool specific options unless

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-19 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
What Alex said. - Logarithmic is universal so that shouldn't be controversial Lower-limit and upper-limits are already implemented. Rigid is something very rrdtool specific so I want to punt on it at this time. Vladimir On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Alex Dean wrote: On Jul 19, 2012, at 9:12 AM,

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-18 Thread Jeff Buchbinder
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Jochen Hein joc...@jochen.org wrote: Hi, I'm working on getting ganglia to display correct units for one custom graph. One of the first tries was to give some extra option to rrdtools. When using php-graphs, this is done via $rrdtool_graph[ 'extras' ], but

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-18 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
I don't like it. It's rrdtool specific. I want something a little bit more generic that gets translated to rrdtool commands. Vladimir On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Jeff Buchbinder wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Jochen Hein joc...@jochen.org wrote: Hi, I'm working on getting ganglia to

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-18 Thread Jeff Buchbinder
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr wrote: I don't like it. It's rrdtool specific. I want something a little bit more generic that gets translated to rrdtool commands. Eventual suggestion: we define a function to convert between whatever extras format we're using and

Re: [Ganglia-developers] add extras parsing to json graph-definitions

2012-07-18 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
I would define a scaling factor or some other variable. I do want to steer away from having tool specific options unless absolutely necessary. Vladimir On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Jeff Buchbinder wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Vladimir Vuksan vli...@veus.hr wrote: I don't like it. It's