[rrd-users] Rrdtool for counting irregular events

[Simon Hobson]

Rafal Gwizdala wrote:
>Whoa, not so fast. TOTAL is available for VDEF only so I can 
>calculate the total for the whole graph only. Still don't see a way 
>to do the same for each aggregation step shown on the graph.

If your step period for the graph is (say) 1800s, then do :
x=a,1800,*
where a is your stored rate, and then plot x.

>If there was some variable representing graph's time resolution I 
>could use it for calculating sums the way you described
>CDEF:total=myvalue,GRAPHRESOLUTIONSECS,*

There is, but you need to work it out before you call the graph. When 
I do graphs, I work out what resolution I'm going to plot and work 
from there. So I tend to do something like :
case period in
   day
     step=300; time=86400 ;;
   week
     step=1800; time=604800 ;;
   ...

Then I work out start and end times :
  e=`date +%s`
  end=$(( ${e} / ${step} * ${step} ))
  start=$(( ${end} - ${time} ))

So in Bash, $end is now the exact time at the end of the last 
complete period, and $start is that time less the length of the graph.

I can now use "--start ${start} --end ${end}" in the graph 
definition, and of course, you can also use $step in calculations :
   x=a,${step},*
for example.

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