Sounds like a cunning plan - and as I've been wanting to do some modifications to the graphs (size, scales etc) I could incorporate that. The major headache would, however, be the administration as you point out. Would you be willing to share your spreadsheet/macros?
Of course, an even better solution (back to Dirk) would be a more sophisticated graphing front end within SA - either to create custom graphs on demand instead of batch files producing them every x minutes, or more options for what sort of graphs are generated. I guess the alternative is to use a completely different tool to manipulate the RRD databases generated by SA - I keep thinking about trying to install Cactus, but I always pull back because of the added complexity. Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Brett Hanson" <bhan...@agrium.com> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu> 05/02/2009 17:40 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu> To Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu> cc Subject RE: [SA-list] RRDTool Graphing Frequency I had a similar situation. What I've done instead is modified the graph rrd batch file to do nothing, setup my own batch files to generate graphs on 10 minute, 30 minute, hourly and daily frequencies. These batch files are set up as scheduled tasks. For example: generate_graphs_10_min.cmd has: call graph_hour.cmd generate_graphs_30_min.cmd has: call graph_day.cmd generat_graphs_hourly.cmd has: call graph_week.cmd generate_graphs_daily.cmd has: call graph_month.cmd call graph_year.cmd graph_hour.cmd has all the hourly graph generation items ...rrdtool.exe graph ....-s -3600 --imgformat PNG ... and so on... This, of course, makes maintenance a bit of a nightmare, so I put together a spreadsheet to read the SAlive host file and use macros to generate the individual batch files. My only real problem with this is that I have to be very careful about creating new entries as I accidentally ran the generate script once and it overwrote the existing RRD databases, discarding more than a year's worth of data. I didn't notice this quick enough to make it worthwhile going to backups. Regards, Brett Hanson Systems Analyst Agrium, Inc. >>> "Dirk" <d...@woodstone.nu> 2/5/2009 5:55 AM >>> Currently that is not possible, but it does look like a great idea to add that.. Dirk Bulinckx. From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:sal...@woodstone.nu] On Behalf Of ian.g...@okieurope.com Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:45 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] RRDTool Graphing Frequency I've started producing Up/Down graphs from RRDTool as well as CHK and RTR. The trouble is, it takes longer to produce the graphs than the interval between one graph.bat starting and the next. I'm therefore getting an infinitely increasing number of batch files running. I can work around this in the short term by increasing the interval between checks, but that's not desirable. Is there a way to specify how often graphs are produced? In other words, is it possible (or *would* it be possible, Dirk) to say that I only want the graph batch file to run (say) every 2nd check cycle? Cheers, Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit ______________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily of the Company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. 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