Hello all ... I was just having a quick E-mail discussion with Tobias w.r.t. changing how graphing is done and he suggested that I subscribe to the list for discussion. Here's some of what transpired to get any reactions you might have:
> From: Tobias Oetiker > > > From: Michael T. Babcock > > > > > From: Tobias Oetiker > > > > > > this has been discussed on the mailinglist, and reactions were > > > favorable ... only that there is nobody willing to code this ... > > > also such a change would require some additional layer which > > > emulated the old commandline on the new interface ... > > > > ... Unless the graphing base interface were changed and the old CLI > > were the emulated layer :). > > well with the xml representation you would actually have more > freedom of expression so I gues it would be sensible to have > this a s a base ... And in a prior E-mail, Michael wrote ... > Something resembling an XML or simple text representation of what should > be collected/graphed, etc. would be much more useful. > > A humble suggestion for XML graphing: > > <graph> > <rrd src="/var/rrd/eth0.rrd" /> > <chart type="line" color="blue" size=2> > <data src="bytesin" /> > <label pos="auto">Bytes In</label> > </chart> > <chart type="line" color="red" size=2> > <data src="bytesout" /> > <label pos="auto">Bytes Out</label> > </chart> > <calc type="rpn" name="bytestotal">bytesin,bytesout,+</calc> > <label pos="auto">Bytes Total: <value src="bytestotal" /></label> > </graph> > > [...] > > Now I realise that this could be done externally, but a separate > graphing library/tool that used an external file to generate the image > data seems most efficient to me. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-developers WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
