<div dir="ltr">Thanks a lot Steve. That cleared all my doubts.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Steve Shipway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Thank you very much Steve.<br>
<pre><span>rrdtool xport
DEF:out=if1-inouts.rrd:outoctets:AVERAGE <br></span> <b> CDEF:customvar=out,POP,123</b>
XPORT:out:"out bytes" <br> XPORT:<b>customvar</b>:"Temp" >> /home/temp/abc.xml<br></pre>
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I tried as you suggested. However, I am getting the error "ERROR: invalid rpn expression in: d1,POP,123" .<br>
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Then I tried using TIME function, which worked fine. Is it that we can use POP function only for time variables?<br>
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My requirement is to return the PATH of the database as a STRING in the xml. Is it possible to do so? Or the stack can handle only Time variables or numbers?<br>
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<pre><span>rrdtool xport
DEF:out=if1-inouts.rrd:outoctets:AVERAGE <br></span> <b> CDEF:customvar=out,POP,"/path/to/if1-inouts.rrd"</b>
XPORT:out:"out bytes" <br> XPORT:<b>customvar</b>:"Temp" >> /home/temp/abc.xml<br><br></pre>
<pre>Thanks again.<br></pre>
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DEF:out=if1-inouts.rrd:outoctets:AVERAGE <br></span> <b>CDEF:customvar=out,POP,12345</b>
XPORT:out:"out bytes" <br> XPORT:<b>customvar</b>:"Temp" >> /home/temp/abc.xml</pre>
Now you'll get a column with '12345' in it next to the outoctets column.<br>
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Note that you need the 'out,POP' to make customvar a time series, although you throw away the original 'out' value. You can't just use 'CDEF:customvar=12345'.<br>
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I am working on a Network Visualization project using RRDTool for my graduate course on Network Engineering.
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I want to use the export feature of RRDtool to create an XML where I want to add some hard coded values(DS not in RRD) to the xml.<br>
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Please assist me on this.<br>
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What I am trying to do - <br>
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DEF:out=if1-inouts.rrd:outoctets:AVERAGE \
XPORT:out:"out bytes" >> /home/temp/abc.xml<br> XPORT:"SOME_CUSTOM_VALUE":"Temp" >> /home/temp/abc.xml<br><br>Here I want to append SOME_CUSTOM_VALUE to the output xml, which I am not able to do as SOME_CUSTOM_VALUE is not present in the database.</pre>
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