[rrd-users] Re: nrg+rrdtool

[steve rader]

 > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Karl_Hei=F0ar?=
 > Is this necesary after each nrg-rrdkeeper file.conf ?
 > I have about 100 config files and got about 200 left to write
 > 
 > nrg-rrdkeeper: /home/httpd/html/nrg/leigulinur/almenna.rrd isn't under 
 > NRG's control...
 > nrg-rrdkeeper: [k]eep [a]rchive or [r]emove? k

<blush>  You can hit "^c" to stop nrg-rrdkeeper from looking for
orphaned .rrd files.

But also I did a pre-release this morning... so if you grab
nrg-0.35pre6 [1], you can do

  nrg-rrdkeeper add *.conf

and just add .rrd files with no fuss.  

The usage of nrg-rrdkeeper (and likewise for nrg-cgikeeper) for v0.35
onward is:

  nrg-rrdkeeper [add|check|sync|delete|archive] [-y] file.conf fileN.conf

Be sure to read the RELEASE_NOTES (also enclosed) ...  you'll have
to run the addGraphWebPage script to add GraphWebPage[]: stmts to
your .confs.  And be warned: mrtg2nrg does not work fully with this
pre-release.

later
steve
- - -
systems guy
wiscnet.net
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 [1] ftp://teak.wiscnet.net/pub/src/nrg/

--------------------------
Release notes for NRG 0.35
--------------------------

 - NRG v0.35 now allows for the use of perl regular expressions in
   the "target" and "ds" part of most configuration keywords.  These regular
   expressions must contain one of the following : "^", "$" and/or ".*".
   For example, you can label the y axis of all graphs for targets that
   end in "-mem" with the config string "YLabel[.*-mem$]: CPU Memory".

 - nrg-cgimaker has been renamed nrg-cgikeeper.  This is because
   nrg-cgikeeper and nrg-rrdkeeper can now run in one of the following
   "modes": add, sync, check, delete or archive. 

 - NRG v0.35 has a vastly improved organization to the contents of
   it's example configuration files.  The example configs now have four
   groups of configuration strings:

     - a section defining how data is labeled 
     - a section defining how data is graphed
     - a section defining the system, it's RRD and it's graph web page
     - a section defining the content of the RRD's graph web page

 - NRG v0.35 requires rrdtool-1.0.10 or better.  If you have an
   older RRDtool version, your web pages will have goofy text like

     Last update was <RRD::TIME::LAST some.rrd "%a %b %e %T %Z %Y">

   in them.  You can delete the RRD::TIME::NOW and RRD::TIME::LAST lines
   outa the templates to make NRG v0.35 work with older versions of RRDtool.

 - NRG web pages now (should) auto-reload every five minutes.  To disable
   this feature, delete <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT=300> from
   the templates.  See the INSTALL file for details about configuring the
   Apache web server to tell web browsers to reload the gif images within
   graph web pages.

 - The keyword GraphWebPage is now required: it tells nrg-cgikeeper
   to write out a graph web page.  (Previously the Variable and RRD keywords
   awkwardly defined a graph web page.)  To generate GraphWebPage statements
   for a given configuration file, use the contrib/addGraphWebPage script
   like so:

     mv Sample.conf OldSample.conf
     addGraphWebPage < OldSample.conf > Sample.conf

   To upgrade all your .conf files, do

     mkdir OLD
     mv *.conf OLD
     cd OLD
     for i in *; do
       /usr/local/src/nrg-0.35/contrib/addGraphWebPage < $i > ../$i
     done
     cd ..
     rm -rf OLD

 - The keyword GraphPageTemplate should replace the keyword PageTemplate.
   For backward compatibility, the keyword PageTemplate still works.
   To convert to the keyword name, use the contrib/addGraphPageTemplate
   script like so:

     mv Sample.conf OldSample.conf
     HERE NOT DONE addGraphPageTemplate < OldSample.conf > Sample.conf

 - The README.conf file now contains explanations about the use
   of NRG configuration keywords.

 - NRG configuration files may now contain backslashes (the "\" character)
   for line continuation.  To allow for the use of backslashes for perl
   regexps, backslashes for line continuation must be placed at the end of
   the line.  However white space characters and/or comments may be placed
   after a line continuation blackslash.

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