On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:54:43AM +0000, Jim Breton wrote: > use an ABSOLUTE DST (which, if I understand correctly, would require me to > do the math myself to find the delta -- so I'd need to save the old value > in a temp file?).
You have one fixed amount of time (the duration of each log) and the number of <whatever> per this fixed time. To me it seems that you want to collect your data using GAUGE. If you get 172800 messages each day, this is -->on average<-- 2 msg per second. Just divide this number (172800) by the number of seconds lapsed (86400). If you count the number of messages multiple times per day and thus get a real wrap then yes, use either the NaN approach or the ABSOLUTE approach. Both ways would involve programming a front-end for RRDtool. When you ask for automation you are asking for a front-end. HTH Alex -- 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
