Smokeping::RRDtools - Tools for RRD file handling
use Smokeping::RRDtools; use RRDs;
my $file = '/path/to/file.rrd';
# get the create arguments that $file was created with my $create = Smokeping::RRDtools::info2create($file);
# use them to create a new file
RRDs::create('/path/to/file2.rrd', @$create);
# or compare them against another create list
my @create = ('--step', 60, 'DS:ds0:GAUGE:120:0:U', 'RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1008');
my $comparison = Smokeping::RRDtools::compare($file, \@create);
print "Create arguments didn't match: $comparison\n" if $comparison;
This module offers two functions, info2create and compare.
The first can be used to recreate the arguments that an RRD file
was created with. The second checks if an RRD file was created
with the given arguments.
The function info2create must be called with one argument:
the path to the interesting RRD file. It will return an array
reference of the argument list that can be fed to RRDs::create.
Note that this list will never contain the start parameter,
but it will contain the step parameter.
The function compare must be called with two arguments: the path
to the interesting RRD file, and a reference to an argument list that
could be fed to RRDs::create. The function will then simply compare
the result of info2create with this argument list. It will return
undef if the arguments matched, and a string indicating the difference
if a discrepancy was found. Note that if there is a start parameter in
the argument list, compare disregards it. If step isn't specified,
compare will use the rrdtool default of 300 seconds.
This module is not particularly specific to Smokeping, it is just distributed with it.
Probably.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Niko Tyni.
Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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