[rrd-users] Re: printing last update and last values in web pages via rrdcgi?

[steve rader]

 > *> Like Bryce as root <root at zen.ics.uwe.ac.uk> asked the other day,
 > *> can rrdcgi to generate *HTML* like the following?  If so, how?
 > *> 
 > *>  The statistics were last updated <B>Tuesday, 28 Sep 1999 at 13:25</B>
 > *>  [...]
 > *>  <TD ALIGN=right>
 > *>    <SMALL>Average<FONT COLOR=#00cc00>&nbsp;In:</FONT></SMALL>
 > *>  </TD>
 > *>  <TD ALIGN=right>
 > *>    <SMALL>1012.1 kbits/s</SMALL>
 > *>  </TD>
 
 > From: Tobias Oetiker
 > sure ... jsut replace GPRINT by PRINT

Well, I tried that of course!  It doesn't work.  So I glanced
at the Source and, quite by accident, found that the following
works: 

 <RRD::PRINT DEF:myspeed=test.rrd:speed:AVERAGE
   PRINT:realspeed:AVERAGE:"ave %.2lf %Sb/s">

Then, on a hunch, I tried

 <RRD::GRAPH test.gif
  DEF:myspeed=test.rrd:speed:AVERAGE CDEF:realspeed=myspeed,1000,*
  LINE2:realspeed#FF0000
  PRINT:realspeed:AVERAGE:"ave %.2lf %Sb/s"
 >
 <RRD::PRINT realspeed>

which also works.

The doc for the rrdcgi <RRD::PRINT> tag is, with all due respect
(to the RRDtool guru), simply not in sync with reality.  Perhaps it
should read

 RRD::PRINT vname

 If the preceding RRD::GRAPH tag contained one or more PRINT
 arguments, then you can use this tag to print the output of 
 the PRINT argument for the variable named "vname".

later
steve
- - -
systems guy
wiscnet.net

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