Thanks David for the suggestion.<br>Since i was planning to do it in production i wanted an advice from the community thats why i asked in mailing list.<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM, David OBrien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgobrien@gmail.com" target="_blank">dgobrien@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace">after searching the archives ( which you should have done first ) and googling I found several people using this...<br>
<br><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">with perl. Install RRD:Simple <br>
</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">#!/usr/local/bin/perl </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">use strict; </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">use RRD::Simple (); </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">my $rrd = RRD::Simple->new(); </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">my $rrdfile=$ARGV[0]; </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">my $source=$ARGV[1]; </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">my $type=$ARGV[2]; </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">chomp($type); </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">$rrd->add_source($rrdfile, $source => $type); </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">usage: ./addSource.pl file.rrd ds GUAGE </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">or whatever the type is.. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">
<span style="line-height:18.200000762939453px">Enjoy.</span><br></font><div class="gmail_extra"><font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">
<font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:26 PM, anuj maurice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anuj.maurice@gmail.com" target="_blank">anuj.maurice@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</font></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><span style="line-height:18px"><font color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace">I have few 100s of rrds and i want to add 5 extra datasource to all of those rrds.</font></span><div>
<font color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><span style="line-height:18px">1. </span><span style="line-height:18px">Is it advisable to do so</span></font></div>
<div><font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><span style="line-height:18px">2. </span><span style="line-height:18px">Whats the best way and the fastest way to do it</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><span style="line-height:18px">Any help wil be highly appreciated<br clear="all">
</span></font><div><font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace">Thanks in Advance</font></div>
<div><font style color="#000000" face="courier new, monospace"><br>regards ,<br>Anuj Maurice<br>
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