[smokeping-users] Re: Need help urgently-XML format

[37asma at niit.edu.pk]

Thanx alot Amedee,

I just wanted to say that currently im working with the historical data
conversion  only so I'll be using the xml method and not the rrdupdate (as
you suggested).Time is a critical factor because historical data needs to
be converted at run time .

You suggest I use the xml method for historical data. I believe you
suggest xml method because it will take longer to use rrdupdate instead,
correct?

>
>> hi all,
>> I need to convert historical PingER data into Smokeping (RRDTool) data
>> in
>> order to plot it using Smokeping.
>> PingER is also a network monitoring tool and has enough information
>> (timestamps for each probe of x number of pings it sends, the round trip
>> times of each ping, and also the pachet loss), that the Smokeping
>> Database
>> needs in order  to plot graphs. Actually I can say enough information
>> because I have compared the pingER text data file with that of
>> Smokepings
>> file by first converting a .rrd file, generated by Smokeping, into XML
>> format.
>>
>> My strategy is to take pingER data and convert it at "run time" into the
>> XML format and then give it to Smokeping to plot after using "Restore"
>> function to restore the XML files to .rrd files.
>
> I suggest you take a deep breath and dive into the RRDtool documentation.
> I think you don't even need the XML files. You can inject your data
> directly into a rrd file using rrdupdate:
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdupdate.en.html
> That's my suggestion for live data.
>
> For historical data, you are on the right track with an xml file and
> rrdrestore: http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdrestore.en.html
>
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