Hi Robin. At 10:35 2002-07-09 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
>Hello, > >I have a project for which the graphing capabilities of RRDTool would be >very helpful. I've looked into the RRDs perl module, and I have a couple >of questions: > >We have an Oracle database, and it would be nice if I could store RRD's >data in Oracle rather than in a text file - however, the perl interface >seems to only accept a filename to store the data in for the RRDs::create >and RRDs::graph functions, for instance. Is there a way to either: > >a) Point RRDs to something else when storing and retrieving the data - >Oracle itself, or even a filehandle or a hash, so I can use Oracle >(which is on another box with plenty of hard disk space for all this data) No. >or b) Give RRDs the data and get a graph out without using a file to store >the data first - so I can store the data in Oracle myself and pour it into >RRDs to draw the graph. No. You can, quite easily, create an rrd, populate it and create a graph, all on the fly. >I guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to use RRDs graph drawing >capabilities but not necessarily it's data storage. Though it would be >nice to have the 'round-robin-ness', I just don't want it to have to read >from and write to files on the web server - I'd rather have it read from >and write to Oracle. There are lots of other graphing packages (gnuplot, GDChart); if you don't want to use rrd files, what is special about rrdtool's graphing? I'm not at all meaning to minimize them, but rrdtool's graphing is aimed at rrd files; that's part of what makes it simple to use, not having to describe the data. >Thanks, Sorry. >-RN > >-- > >Robin Norwood > >"The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." >-Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching > >-- >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 -- 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
