Re: [hobbit] Need Help Migrating RRD data

[Stef Coene <stef.coene (at) docum.org>]

On Thursday 14 May 2009, James Wade wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> So, I wrote a Hobbit(xymon) Script that gives the number of users
> accessing specific URL's which goes into the RRD database.
>
> I now want to track the number of users accessing another
> URL, so I modified my hobbit script and the hobbitgraph.cfg.
>
> However, I can't see the new data. What's the easiest way to
> get the new value into the RRD database?
>
> I know I can just remove the existing database and have it
> re-create the database and it will start pulling the new data.
>
> However, I want my old data from the other values in there
> in addition to the new one.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
Don't blame me it it screws up your rrd, but I attached the script that I use.
It searches a predefined directory (/home/users/hobbit/data/rrd/) for the 
files vmstat.rrd to add a DS.  I used this to add 2 extra counters from 
Power5 CPU virtualisation.


Stef