[rrd-users] Adding a DS

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rrd-users-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:rrd-users-
> bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Cole Tuininga
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:30 PM
> To: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: [rrd-users] Adding a DS
> 
> Hey folks - I'm a bit of an RRD newbie.  I have a feeling the answer
> to this question is "no", but I thought I'd make sure.
> 
> Is it possible to add a DS to an existing RRD?  Or do I have to create
> a completely new RRD with the desired DS and repopulate it from the
> old RRD?

The add_ds script from the Cricket contrib has worked well for me to
mass modify 10's of thousands of rrds. It's not cricket specific and
will add any number of DS's to an rrd, even allowing batching. 

http://cricket.sourceforge.net/contrib/less 


Hth,

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marc