Hi everybody, first let me say, that rrdtool is really great! Thanks to all the developpers, mainly to Tobi Oetker.
Then I got a question (sorry in case something like that already has been dicussed before - I didn't check the archives). I wonder why there isn't a 'SUM' consolidation function implemented. I think it is needed quite often. When monitoring a 'counter', you will in many cases will want to have the consolidated data summed up - not averaged e.g. when counting mails I'm not interested in the averaged 5min number of mails (when updating every 5mins) but in the e.g. hourly sums. I know that it is no problem to work around this using a CDEF (use 'average' then in the CDEF multiply by the number of points). but wouldn't it be more straightforward to have a 'sum' consolidation function (besides average, min, max, last)? e.g. certain frontends who allow to select the consolidation function but which don't use CDEF's could deal better with that. did I get somethig completely wrong? is it possible and don't know how? thanks in advance and happy hacking to all matthias -- =================================================================== == from: Matthias Mikuletz == == ILpÖ -- Universität Stuttgart == == jobfon 0711/121-4142 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] == =================================================================== -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
