[rrd-developers] How to create a new Data Type and Consolidation Function?

[Reinhard Scheck]

On 11.04.2011 09:32, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> Hi Long,
>
> Friday Long V wrote:
>
>> Hi Tobi,
>>
>> As I explained earlier in this same thread, I needed a solution for Cacti to be
>> able to sum up the difference between 2 counter readings.
>
> seems a bit extreem to hack something so alien into rrdtool instead
> of fixing cacti, but there you go ...
I do support Tobi's request.
And I do not see the need of introducing an rrdtool hack.
Perhaps I missed sth here, but IMHO, we can achieve this with cacti. This should 
be discussed in the Cacti forums.

Reinhard
aka "gandalf"
Cacti Developer