[rrd-users] Re: Weird field name

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Philip Molter wrote:
> 
> I have an automated process running.  This process creates RRD files.
> One of the RRD files has a DS named 'Load-1'.  It has no problem
> creating and storing data into this DS.  However, when I go to fetch
> data from this file, I get:
> 
> can't parse DEF 'Load-1=file.rrd:Load-1:AVERAGE'

Hmm... the manual for rrdtool create specifies a valid range
of characters: [a-zA-Z0-9_]

It should be enforced IMHO.

> I can't seem to escape the hyphens (which I assume are the problem),
> and it's kind of important that the virtual name and the DS name be the
> same.  How do I work around this?

The obvious workaround is to rrdtool tune --data-source-rename me thinks.

HTH
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