[rrd-users] Re: adding a datasource - sanity check

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Per,
I think this is what
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/contrib/rrdaddsource.gz
does

cheers
tobi


> All,
>
> I've worked out the following scheme for adding a datasource to an existing rrd:
>
> rrdddump >xml
> massage xml, adding DS and a new value=NaN for the new DS.
> rrdrestore xml >newrrd
>
> Sanity check - is this the right way or is there a better/easier/more correct way?
>
> Sanity check - as the data obviously didn't exist before, I'm not really too
> bothered with the contents of the archives etc. - is NaN the right value to use or should
> I just use 0.0e+0?
>
>
> thanks,
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>
>

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