Justin, You need to 'rrdtool dump rrdfile.rrd > rrdfile.xml' to create something to work with and then add in the new variables that you want to start collecting data for. Once it's the way you want, you do a 'rrdtool restore rrdfile.xml rrdfile.rrd' and the data is imported back in.
Steve Robb -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:01 PM To: Steve Robb Cc: David Corbin; RRD Users Subject: RE: [rrd-users] Re: Newbie problem Steve, Thanks for the reply. That's what I was missing. I'm now getting my graphs and experienmenting with all the various image settings. I'm now realizing that I should have created all my various mail filter variables when I first created the rrd even if I wasn't going to graph them right away. Is there a way to add them after the fact? I realize that the data from the past couple of days won't be there but that doesn't concern me any. I've been reading through the man pages and haven't found anything promising. I was also wondering if someone could give me an example of the --template in use. I believe this is right but I don't want to foul up my rrd trying it: rrdtool update $workDir/spam.rrd \ -t RSS N:$RSS \ -t DUL N:$DUL \ -t SPEWS N:$SPEWS \ -t SPAMHAUS N:$SPAMHAUS \ -t SOCKS N:$SOCKS \ -t SENDMAIL_MISC N:$SENDMAIL_MISC Would that be the correct usage? Thanks Justin On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Steve Robb wrote: > David/Justin > > The value that you are storing in the RRD is a number that represents a '5 > minute average expressed as units per second' which means that you need to > multiply the stored value by 300 (secs) in order to display something that > makes sense. > > Using your example - > > rrdtool graph spam-day.png --start -86400 \ > DEF:rss=spam.rrd:RSS:AVERAGE \ > DEF:dul=spam.rrd:DUL:AVERAGE \ > DEF:spews=spam.rrd:SPEWS:AVERAGE \ > DEF:spamhaus=spam.rrd:SPAMHAUS:AVERAGE \ > DEF:socks=spam.rrd:SOCKS:AVERAGE \ > DEF:sendmail_misc=spam.rrd:SENDMAIL_MISC:AVERAGE \ > new> CDEF:5minrss=rss,300,* \ > new> CDEF:5mindul=dul,300,* \ > new> CDEF:5minspews=spews,300,* \ > new> CDEF:5minspamhaus=spamhaus,300,* \ > new> CDEF:5minsocks=socks,300,* \ > new> CDEF:5minsendmail=sendmail,300,* \ > new> LINE2:5minrss#FF0000:"Legend for rss"\ > new> LINE2:5mindul#FF0000:"Legend for dul"\ > new> ...etc > > Steve Robb > -- 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
