[rrd-users] The Y-Axis is Displaying an Incorrect Unit

[Steve Shipway]

Of course, you can do this in RRDTool.

If your RRD holds values in K, then you just need to multiply these by 1024
before graphing and they will display correctly.  Similarly you can multiple
by 1024000 to convert from MB to bytes.

The next question, of course, is going to be 'how do I do this in
PNP4Nagios?'.

In your template, you'll need to add something like this ...

$def[0] .=  rrd::def("kbytes",$RRDFILE[0],$DS[0],"AVERAGE ") ;
$def[0] .= rrd::cdef("bytes","kbytes,1024,*");
$def[0] .= rrd::line1("bytes","#00ff00 ","Memory");

The CDEF line is the important one, creating a new calculated series called
'bytes' from the one in the RRD.

Now for our horizontal line, assuming the threshold is also in K....

$def[0] .= rrd::hrule($CRIT[0], "#FF0000", "Critical
".(round($CRIT[0]/100000)/10)."GB \\n");

Note how we divide and round to get GB with 1dp.

Steve

Steve Shipway
s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz

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Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2014 8:57 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [rrd-users] The Y-Axis is Displaying an Incorrect Unit

*Update:*
Ok, so I edited my script that sends the data to RRDTool /(*actually data
goes to PnP4Nagios, which in turn sends to RRDTool)/. I simply added a line
to my script to test sending just 'Bytes' instead of 'Kilobytes' just to see
what would happen, and now the Y-Legend displays with the correct Unit of
'G' for Gigabytes. But, is there anyway to make this happen in RRDTool
instead of changing my script to send Bytes instead of Kilobytes?


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