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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Walter; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I believe there is no such option. It would be a good feature request though. Also, another request that would be similar would be for the ability to wrap on a time-basis, ie., hourly. In the meantime,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You have 2 alternatives to deal with the situation: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>1) Modify the rrd datasource to have a max-limit imposed, so that any value over XXXXX will result in NaN, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Example of removing the maximum, however, the principle is the same:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>root@cacti2:/usr/share/cacti/rra# rrdtool </span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>info</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>onhood-srvr-32-logeng01_linux_mem_buffers_20059.rrd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>filename = "onhood-srvr-32-logeng01_linux_mem_buffers_20059.rrd"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>rrd_version = "0003"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>step = 300<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>last_update = 1339789212<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>header_size = 2040<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].index = 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].type = "GAUGE"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].minimal_heartbeat = 600<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].min = 0.0000000000e+00<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].max = 1.0000000000e+07<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].last_ds = "25144"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].value = 3.0172800000e+05<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].unknown_sec = 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>root@cacti2:/usr/share/cacti/rra# rrdtool </span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>tune</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>onhood-srvr-32-logeng01_linux_mem_buffers_20059.rrd --maximum mem_buffers:U<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>root@cacti2:/usr/share/cacti/rra# rrdtool info onhood-srvr-32-logeng01_linux_mem_buffers_20059.rrd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>filename = "onhood-srvr-32-logeng01_linux_mem_buffers_20059.rrd"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>rrd_version = "0003"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>step = 300<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>last_update = 1339789212<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>header_size = 2040<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].index = 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].type = "GAUGE"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].minimal_heartbeat = 600<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].min = 0.0000000000e+00<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].max = NaN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].last_ds = "25144"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].value = 3.0172800000e+05<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ds[mem_buffers].unknown_sec = 0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Or, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>2) Create a CDEF to ignore values above XXXXX and instead graph the last-known-good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>cdef=CURRENT_DATA_SOURCE,50000,GT,PREV,CURRENT_DATA_SOURCE,IF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>Patrick Best<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:green'>Sr. Systems Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Network Support and Operations (NSO)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>TELUS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399'>650 Hood Road<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399'>Markham, Ont<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399'>L3R 4S7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Email: </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:patrick.best@telus.com"><span lang=FR-CA style='color:blue'>patrick.best@telus.com</span></a></span><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Office: 905-305-5138<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mobile: 416-684-3579<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D'>This email, including any 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If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us by reply email or by telephone (collect, if necessary) and destroy this email and any copies. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> rrd-users-bounces+patrick.best=telus.com@lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:rrd-users-bounces+patrick.best=telus.com@lists.oetiker.ch] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Walter Onda<br><b>Sent:</b> July 16, 2012 4:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b>Subject:</b> [rrd-users] Counter Overflow<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We have a system that the overflow happen at nearly 2.1 GB, with RRD we always have a peak into the graph.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is there a way to overwrite the overflow from RRD to fetch another bit number and not at 32 or 64 bit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Walter <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-CH style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=DE-CH><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>