[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-06 Thread Jason Fesler
For anyone who cares.. I've got the script working and producing valid DS's, reading the .rrd files raw. I'm going to add in some safety checks and such, then I'll put a pointer up for grabbing it. I should be able to make it available in the next 24 hours barring other emergencies. -- Unsubs

[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-05 Thread Alexander Karptsov
Jason Fesler wrote: > > After fighting trying to learn my way around in the code, I finally gave > up and agreed. I'm now about 80% done with doing it entirely in perl, > after a translation of rrd_*.h into a perl script. Probably overboard, > but I wanted the entire RRD file to be understood f

[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-05 Thread Jason Fesler
> I think you should probably do this differently. Basically the RRD > file format is a number of RRAs, each RRA being built from a number > of rows, each row being built from a number of CDPs. What you need > to do is: After fighting trying to learn my way around in the code, I finally gave up

[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-04 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
Jason Fesler wrote: > I'm stumbling my way into actually adding a "addds" command into rrdtool. > It is really fun walking into someone else's code and trying to peice > things together (grin). I may need to poke you if I get stumped (I got > sidetracked today). I *hope* to have something that

[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-04 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Yesterday Christian Pearce wrote: | > | > this said, I am sure many would apreciate a mechanism for magically | > adding DSes ... and I guess it should not be all that hard todo ... | > if you write the documentation first and post it to the list, I | > might be able to give some input ... |

[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-04 Thread Jason Fesler
> the 'idea' is to keep only those things together in one rrd which > are realy tightly related and not likely to change ... others > should go into separate rrds ... That's exactly the case with the stuff I'm tracking. After 2 years, the data I'm acquiring is now reporting more data. I don't p

[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-04 Thread Christian Pearce
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > Yesterday Jason Fesler wrote: > > | Has anyone made a way to add_ds using the data structures for rrd files > | directly? Granted, this is touching the internals of RRD files, and > | tobias will laugh at me if he changes the data format :-),

[rrd-users] Re: Adding DS's - without import/export?

2001-03-04 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Yesterday Jason Fesler wrote: | | I'm playing around with adding DS's to existing RRD files. | I was hoping to be able to tell my data collection scripts | that if they see new fields, that the .rrd file doesn't have, | automaticly take a moment to convert the .rrd file and be | done with i