[rrd-users] Re: Rrdtool/Liveice/Perl

[Harald Nesland]

Thanks for your suggestions, I will look into it, and "rewrite" it a bit
properly.
This is only a (ofcourse) ugly hack, with copy-pasted rrd code :)
The $vol3 is something I forgot to remove, and it was used to see the
differences between
vol1 and vol2, but the results weren't that different (vol1 and vol2 is
nearly the same all the time).

I don't know what vol1- and vol2-output from liveice is, but it changes when
the sound changes ;P
Sure it is documented somewhere, but I'm lazy :D

I will rewrite stuff, and post it to the gallery, with a howto and examples
:)

-----Original Message-----
From: rrd-users-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch
[mailto:rrd-users-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Alex van den
Bogaerdt
Sent: 5. februar 2003 13:18
To: Rrd-Users
Subject: [rrd-users] Re: Rrdtool/Liveice/Perl



On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:50:23AM +0100, Harald Nesland wrote:

> while(<>) {
>   if(/VOLUME (\d*) (\d*)/) {
>     $vol1 = $1;
>     $vol2 = $2;
>     $time = time;
>     if($time>$oldtime) {
>       print "$time:$vol1:$vol2\n";
>       if($vol1>$vol2) { $vol3 = $vol1 - $vol2;} else { $vol3 = $vol2 -
> $vol1; }
>       system("rrdtool update liveice.rrd $time:$vol1:$vol2 ");
>     }
>     $oldtime = $time;
>   }
> }

Without an explanation, $vol1 and $vol2 don't mean anything to me.
$vol3 is calculated but never used.

> This is the perl script that reads data from liveice. The data is piped to
> the script with
> `liveice -@ 1 | perl script.pl`.

You could consider piping the data into one rrdtool instance:

   liveice -@ 1 | per script.pl | rrdtool -

Your script should then echo the rrdtool command to stdout, like this:

   update liveice.rrd $time:$vol1:$vol2


> The maximum value liveice outputs is "32768". And the lowest I've
> come to is about "1000". The range is very big, and I'm not sure
> how the rrd should be created, nor how the graph should be created.

You could try a logaritmic scale.  Or, alternatively, you could define
some levels inside your perl script.

I'm no radio expert but isn't there something like a reception scale
where 1 means bad (or: unreadable) and 5 means good?

> rrdtool create liveice.rrd             \
>         --start `date +%s`          \

Unless you want to process historic data, you don't need "--start"
in your create command.

>         --step 3 \

data should come in about every three seconds ...
(each "bucket" is three seconds)

>         DS:a:GAUGE:100:0:32768 \
>         DS:b:GAUGE:100:0:32768 \

expect data at least every 100 seconds

>         RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600 \

remember 600 values times 3 seconds per value --> 1800 seconds == 0.5 hour

>         RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 \

remember 700 values times 18 seconds per value --> 12600 seconds == 3.5 hour

>         RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 \
>         RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 \

and so on


> rrdtool graph liveice.png \
>          --start -600  \
>          --title "LiveIce activity" \
>          --width=600 \
>          --height=250 \

display "now" to "now-600" with a width of 600 pixels -->  600 seconds
at one pixel per second --> 3 pixels per "bucket".

>          DEF:a=liveice.rrd:a:AVERAGE \
>          LINE2:a#0000ff \
>          DEF:b=liveice.rrd:b:AVERAGE \
>          LINE2:b#ff0000

show "$vol1" in blue and "$vol2" in red.

Suggestion:  name the DEFs vol1 and vol2.  There's no need to do so
             for RRDtool but it makes it more easy to correlate
             script.pl and the rrdtool script.

Suggestion:  when you have a nice graph, submit it to the image gallery
             together with a small HOWTO.

Alex
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