-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > Yes, but that's where I'm stuck. All the examples I've seen are > for creating a single DS with multiple RRAs. Can I create it with > multiple DSs, each one containing multiple RRAs as well (probably 2 > RRAs per DS)?
F.ex.: rrdtool create /usr/local/rrdtool/system.rrd DS:load:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:hda2:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:hdb3:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:mem:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:swap:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 > Actually, that's what I meant originally. Able to update all the > DSs at the same time (and not run rrdtool/rrdupdate for each DS > that needs updating.) > I tried the same, but it didn't work, ended up in inserting all values for one time with one rrdtool update command. > Just a curiosity question: why go through that instead of pulling > it from SNMP? (with the only difference being that SNMP will take > the raw values of the drive while df takes the 5% super-user space > into account) > 1st: didn't knew ;-) 2nd: no snmpd running, maybe. 3rd: 5% for root is not fixed. F.ex. on my video partition i have 0% for root reserved... > Same here... One can get most, if not all of those values from > SNMP. Is there a particular reason not to trust SNMP? > One daemon less running is one possible entrance for unliked guests less. If you use this on your home network it dosen't matter... > That's what I needed to know in terms of updating. Great. Now i > need to figure out how to create the rrd file. > Hope to be helpful :-) > I can certainly start an rrd file for say one server, containing > all the data I want to monitor. However, if in the future I want > to monitor another item, say I added another partition that needs > monitoring, I'd prefer if it's all within the same rrd, and not end > up with multiple rrd files for the same server. Does that make > sense? > It depends. It uses some hand work to add another DS, but if this dosen't happen twice a week you may do like this. Someone got the perl script by hand? If not, I will take a look tomorrow. Have to go to bed now ;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFJUWN34dQ9W8Dyg4RAni3AJwITV+8EWeku7Yy+xg2iergHXt3WgCbB96L Og5aE3C6iXTZnVK38oleyDs= =sw8B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
