[rrd-users] Re: Filling in NaN's?

[Adam Rothschild]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:27:34PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
>   However, I hope you realize what you are getting via your proposal is
> *not* flawed data, it's no data at all - you're only making it look as
> though you had data.  In some sense, it's "negative" data - you are
> removing the data indicating that you were unable to collect data
> values at a certain time, which could be useful data in itself. 

Agreed entirely.

> As you can tell, I'm philosophically opposed to this.

As am I.  There was a very specific and somewhat broken situation
which required this, unfortunately.  I definitely don't want to come
across as saying it's a good thing, or encouraging its widespread
usage.

>   If you only want smooth looking *graphs*, there's probably a way to
> do this with some of the CDEF expressions in the grapher, using the
> "PREV" command.  E.g. assuming orig is the def for your original data
> source, something like:
> 
>   CDEF:smooth=orig,UN,PREV,orig,IF
> 
> should give you a graph with flat-lines where the data is unknown, much
> like MRTG's old behavior.

Yup, that works; thanks.

What I'd really like though is a script to perform the necessary
fondlage on the RRD itself -- or more realistically, export the RRD to
XML, perform the necessary fondlage there, and then re-build the RRD.
Has anyone done this before?

Cheers,
-adam

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