[rrd-users] Ever thought of extending functionality to create a dial

[rader at ginseng.hep.wisc.edu]

A fair bit of thought (and discussion with Tobi) has been given to a
native way to produce piecharts/dials/guages...

 http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~rader/rrdpiechart/rrdpiechart.pod

Tobi: could you post it to the Wiki?  I started to do it sometime
ago, but wasn't sure where to fit it in.

steve
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 > From: "Rob Conway" <rjconway at bigpond.com>
 > 
 > I have been using rrd for a year now showing trends of my data and it =
 > works great running on embedded linux (NSLU2).......To compliment the =
 > trends I was wondering if anybody had tried to create maybe the last or =
 > averaged data for a period and visualise it as a dial or gauge.  This =
 > would mean rrdtool not only providing trends however dials that can be =
 > used within web based dash boards....