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Smokeping::RRDtools

Synopsis

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 ($fatal, $comparison) = Smokeping::RRDtools::compare($file, \@create);
print "Fatal: " if $fatal;
print "Create arguments didn't match: $comparison\n" if $comparison;

Smokeping::RRDtools::tuneds($file, \@create);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module offers three functions, info2create, compare and tuneds. 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 thirds tunes the DS parameters according to the supplied create string.

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 an array of two values: (fatal, text) where fatal is 1 if it found a fatal difference, and 0 if not. The text will contain an error message if fatal == 1 and a possible warning message if fatal == 0. If fatal == 0 and text is undef, all the arguments matched.

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. compare ignores non-matching DS parameters since tuneds will fix them.

tuneds talks on stderr about the parameters it fixes.

Notes

This module is not particularly specific to Smokeping, it is just distributed with it.

Bugs

Probably.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2005 by Niko Tyni.

Author

Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>

License

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.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

See also

RRDs(3)

04/29/2007 | Niko Tyni | OETIKER+PARTNER AG