Re: [Ganglia-general] Migrating existing RRD's to a new server;

2008-05-21 Thread Witham, Timothy D
There may be a workaround thought: if you use 'rrdtool dump', you will get a (large) XML file with all of the data. You should be able to then use 'rrdtool restore' to read this back into the new .rrd file. But since you probably have hundreds or thousands of rrd files, you need some automation.

Re: [Ganglia-general] Migrating existing RRD's to a new server;

2008-05-21 Thread Jason A. Smith
A few years ago I had put a script on ganglia's bugzilla that modifies the rrd files to do a few simple things, like change the heartbeat value and change the number of RRAs, see: http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33 Since we are in the process of moving our gmetad

Re: [Ganglia-general] Migrating existing RRD's to a new server;

2008-05-21 Thread Brad Nicholes
This looks like a useful script. Can we add it to the contrib area in the Ganglia repository? Brad On 5/21/2008 at 9:51 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago I had put a script on ganglia's bugzilla that modifies the rrd files to do a few

Re: [Ganglia-general] Migrating existing RRD's to a new server;

2008-05-21 Thread Jason A. Smith
Hi Brad, If you think it might be useful, feel free to include it. ~Jason On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:19 -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: This looks like a useful script. Can we add it to the contrib area in the Ganglia repository? Brad On 5/21/2008 at 9:51 AM, in message [EMAIL