[rrd-users] Rrdtool for counting irregular events

[Rafal Gwizdala]

Thanks, Simon

We're getting close to the solution, however I don't like how this forces
me to manually handle step calculation.
It complicates my software significantly - up to now I could rely on
rrdtool handling the step and date ranges.

Best regards,
RG


On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>wrote:

> 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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