[rrd-users] Get DS:MAX without MAX RRA

[Steve Shipway]

Why not do it in two steps?

First, make a call to RRDs::fetch to obtain the min and max values of the value you want to graph over the time period in question.
Second, use these values to calculate a round number to use as min/max.  
Third, use your preferred temperature min/max to calculate an appropriate scaleshift for the humidity; if the temp is from A to B, then set scaleshift for the second axis to (100/(B-A)):-A and have the second value display as (X/100*(B-A)+A)

This should achieve what you want.  Of course, you cant do it from rrdcgi, but if you're generating the graph programmatically from the libraries it shouldnt be a problem.

Steve

Steve Shipway
University of Auckland ITS
UNIX Systems Design Lead
s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz
Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487


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From: rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch [rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Matt Elias [m_elias at fastmail.fm]
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Subject: [rrd-users] Get DS:MAX without MAX RRA

I would like to display two data definitions on one graph, temperature
and humidity. I would like to get the main Y axis (temperature) scale to
remain automatic (or manually set a little lower than the min and a
little higher than the max) and the right axis (humidity) scale at the
same scale (ie 0 - 100). My initial thoughts are that if I can get the
graph's min and max temperature values, then maybe I can use that to
scale the Y axis and use a formula to scale the humidty values
accordingly so that they match the right axis' 0-100 scale. The min and
max values I need are similar to the MAX and MIN values that are
displayed in the GPRINT paramenters:

         "LINE1:Temp#32CD32:Temperature C",
         "GPRINT:Temp:MAX:  Max\\: %5.1lf %s",
         "GPRINT:Temp:AVERAGE:Avg\\: %5.1lf %s",
         "GPRINT:Temp:MIN:Min\\: %5.1lf %s",
         "GPRINT:Temp:LAST:Last\\: %5.1lf %s\\l",

If something like this is not doable from within RRDtool, then I may log
additional data to a log file and have my graph generating perl script
use that log file to manipulate the Y axis scales.

Matt

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