[rrd-users] Upper-Lower limit and VDEF

[Tobi Oetiker]

Hi Anonymus,

Norrdtooldoes not support this ... but it isaninteresting idea. feel free to submit a patch: github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x
Tobias Oetiker

tobi at oetiker.ch
062 775 9902

> On 23.02.2014, at 14:18, sminc <disposable at sminc.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> Do --lower-limit or --upper-limit accept VDEF variables as values ?
> 
> All the examples I have seen use actual numeric values within the
> upper/lower commands to fix the Y-axis but I would like to have it more
> dynamic based on the values within the graph itself.
> 
> I have a set of data (hard disk temperatures) which I have manipulated with
> CDEF and VDEF to arrive at simple numeric values related to the maximum and
> minimum temperature seen on the graph. These are stored in VDEF variables.
> 
> I can plot LINEs using the above VDEF values for position yet when I use the
> same VDEF variable names in the lower/upper limit commands they are either
> ignored or force the wrong scale.
> 
> I realise that auto-scaling is doing this for me but I would like more
> control.
> 
> I can substitute variables into the lower/upper commands from outside the
> rrdtool graph command with $variable etc but then cannot see a way of
> creating the same values I found via CDEF and VDEF via the script (using
> rrdtool fetch etc).
> 
> So my question is, should this work and I am doing it wrong or does
> upper/lower-limit not support VDEF substitution for values ?
> 
> I am running RRDTOOL on a synology NAS as a pre-compiled IPKG package,
> listed as version 1.2.30-1
> 
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
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