[rrd-users] Re: Followup on previous request: Re: most likelyinformation to store

PAUL WILLIAMSON pwilliamson at mandtbank.com
Mon Nov 1 11:38:37 MET 2004


>>>> isp <isp at bnjcomp.com> 11/01/04 1:46 AM >>>
>As I went to create a RRD for below it struck me that upon getting data
back
>out of the RRD I had to identify it. I was thinking that the same RRD
would
>store a few RRA's (the daily, wee kly, monthly, etc) and I would
retrieve
>what I wanted.  But now I am thinking I have to store each of RRA's in
a
>different RRD.  Is my thinking correct?  IF so then I would need 4
RRD's for
>every device which seems like a lot of RRD's (about 200 devices).
>
>Thanks Terry


Defintely not.  The daily, weekly, monthly, etc. are exactly what you 
want to store in the RRAs.  Storing them in different RRDs totally 
defeats the purpose of the consolidation functions RRDTool 
is so strong at doing.

Paul


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