Yes ive seen Cacti, its nice. The whole idea for me though is to actually learn how the rrd thing works, so i am not limited to a front-end.
Thanks a lot, David On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Ryan Steele wrote: > David, > > Just my two cents - check out Cacti. It comes with lots of pre- > loaded RRD/RRA definitions, among them being the process counts. > Of all the frontends to RRDTool, I prefer Cacti over Munin, > Cricket, MRTG, and the like. The documentation is a bit less than > you'd like, but once you get your head around it it's really a > dream to work with. > > Best, > Ryan Steele > > David Schulz wrote: >> Hello, >> >> since a while i am digging around the Net to become more clear >> about rrdtool, but i am not making much progress. >> >> My Goal is to graph the Number of Processes on my Server, for the >> last hour, day, week, month and year. In the beginning i just >> made one big Archive, using >> >> Can someone show me how to best create one such .rrd with >> multiple RRA`s, explain to me the calculations you made to decide >> on the values for the RRA`s? I tried multiple combinations, one - >> >> rrdtool create process_count.rrd --step 60 DS:pc:GAUGE:120:0:U >> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:525960, which is supposed to take one value >> every 60 seconds, for one year, >> >> but it appears it is better to split the different required times >> into different RRA`s. I have no idea how to calculate this though. >> My main Problem is to determine the exact Values for the >> individual RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:?:?. I have read that for example this >> >> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:60 should be one hour (1*60*60= 3600 seconds), >> and RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:60:24 should be 24 hours, but how about a >> week or a month for example? Why RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:60:24, and not >> RRA:AVERAGE: 0.5:24:60, both should equal a week, right? >> >> >> I really need a push in the right direction here. >> Thanks a lot for any Explanation, >> David >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rrd-users mailing list >> rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch >> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users >> > > > -- > Ryan Steele Systems > Administrator AgoraNet, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users