[hobbit] Custom RRD graphs

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:06:34AM, Stuffle, David wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to learn how to create custom graphs.  I have it working for
> graphing license usage but I'm am not clear on a few things.  Here is what I
> put in the hobbitgraph.cfg:
>  
> [license]
>         TITLE License Utilization
>         YAXIS Used Licenses
>         DEF:avg=license.rrd:license:AVERAGE
>         LINE2:avg#@COLOR@:Used Licenses
>         GPRINT:avg:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
>         GPRINT:avg:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
>         GPRINT:avg:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
>         GPRINT:avg:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
>  
>  
> My question is, what does AVERAGE mean in the DEF line?  What other options

man rrdgraph

OR

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/manual/rrdgraph.html

> are there besides AVERAGE?
>  
> Also, the license count will always be a whole number from say, 0 to 30.
> Sometimes my graph shows, for example, 3.6 licenses used.   Is there an

You should be able to use CDEF get whole numbers.

Here is tutorial on that

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/tutorial/cdeftutorial.html

I would think RRD questions should be directed to RRD mailing list 

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/mailinglists.html

Thanks

> option I need to add to tell it to always use a whole number?  My custom_rrd
> script doesn't send anything except a whole number. 
>  
> Thanks for any help.
>  
> David Stuffle
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