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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Hi all<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">I have a couple of questions regarding smokeping and rrdtool
which I’m hoping someone can assist with.<o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">I would like the graphs generated via smokeping to be
smooth, instead of stair-case jagged like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to the RRDtool page, the “--slope-mode” switch can be used to
accomplish this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have much knowledge
of perl or RRD but I did manage to find this file called “RRDtools.pm” located
at “/opt/smokeping/lib/Smokeping/RRDtools.pm” .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I modified the following lines below from the RRDtools.pm file but it
didn’t make a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></i></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"># or compare them
against another create list<o:p></o:p></i></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my @create = ('--step', 60,
'DS:ds0:GAUGE:120:0:U', 'RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1008', <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">'--slope-mode'</b>);<o:p></o:p></i></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Not really sure what I’m doing here, was just taking a
guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anyone knows how to apply the
slope-mode parameter and can give an example config paste that would definitely
be appreciated <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Rumpole</p> </div></body>
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