[xymon] 4.3.0 RC1 - rrddefinitions.cfg suggestion

[Brian Majeska]

Yes, my rrdtool create works.  Let me know if you need me to
test/check anything else?

# rpm -qa | grep rrdtool
rrdtool-1.2.27-3.el5
rrdtool-1.2.27-3.el5
rrdtool-perl-1.2.27-3.el5

# rrdtool version
RRDtool 1.2.27  Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch>

#  rrdtool create temperature.rrd --step 60 \
> DS:temp:GAUGE:600:-273:5000 \
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1200

# rrdtool info temperature.rrd
filename = "temperature.rrd"
rrd_version = "0003"
step = 60
last_update = 1297180864
ds[temp].type = "GAUGE"
ds[temp].minimal_heartbeat = 600
ds[temp].min = -2.7300000000e+02
ds[temp].max = 5.0000000000e+03
ds[temp].last_ds = "UNKN"
ds[temp].value = 0.0000000000e+00
ds[temp].unknown_sec = 4
rra[0].cf = "AVERAGE"
rra[0].rows = 1200
rra[0].pdp_per_row = 1
rra[0].xff = 5.0000000000e-01
rra[0].cdp_prep[0].value = NaN
rra[0].cdp_prep[0].unknown_datapoints = 0

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Brian Majeska



On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> In <AANLkTikr693iyCLk_kVro38SrEhQCvJ5Cw1X8pP-Dj29 at mail.gmail.com> Brian Majeska <brian at majeska.com> writes:
>
>>Found a bug.  I got the following error in the rrd-status.log when
>>testing the '--step 60' option:
>
>>2011-02-07 09:40:48 RRD error creating
>>/local/xymon/data/rrd/sha.ipac.caltech.edu/tcp.http.sha.ipac.caltech.edu,.r=
>>rd:
>>unknown option '--step 60'
>
>>However it Does work when I use: -s 60
>
> Could you check if your "rrdcreate" command supports the "--step"
> option ? Xymon just passes this verbatim to the rrdtool library,
> which uses the same option syntax as the command line tools.
> So this error message actually comes from the RRDtool library.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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