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1 Status Report on the RRDtool OSS Project
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3 Author: Tobias Oetiker
4 Date: 2008-11-19
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8 Accomplishments
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11 * RRDtool 1.4
13 * After a long rc periode. The new major version of RRDtool has been
14 released in October. It featueres RRDcached.
16 * RRDcached is a corner stone in the quest for even better performance. It
17 works by caching updates and then applying them in bulk to the
18 individual rrd files. This cuts away a lot of the overhead associated
19 with accessing RRD files for individual updates.
21 RRDcached was the first standalone component of RRDtool, developed
22 without code contributions from me. It is based on a concept paper that
23 has been sitting in the rrdtool wiki for quite some time and lots of
24 ideas from the two main developers Florian Forster and Kevin Brintnall.
26 For me this caused a shift towards more work on the developers
27 mailinglist and in integrating patches.
29 * A host of other smaller features was also added in the 1.4 release, like
30 massively improved memory efficiency for restore operations, additional
31 graphing functions and the ability to directly pull data into graphs
32 from a classical database via libdbi.
34 * RRDtool 1.3.x was until October the current release. It saw several
35 revisions, mostly for bugfixes and performance improvements.
37 Other Ongoing Activities
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40 * Code Maintenance: mails on the mailing-lists and directly to me
41 indicate compatibility issues or suggest little changes. These are
42 often implemented immediately.
44 * Thanks to a developer account on the opencsw.org infrastructure I am now
45 in a position to debug solaris issues directly and have done so for the
46 1.4 release.
48 * Mailing-list, Web-server, Trac maintenance. The on-line resources
49 for RRDtool are kept up-to-date, in working order and spam free.
51 * Two tutorials on RRDtool at LISA 2009 (conference on
52 Large Installation System Administration, Nov 2009, Baltimore, U.S.)
54 Planned Activities
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57 * Continued support for 1.2.x, 1.3.x
59 * Development of RRDtool 1.5
61 The major feature of 1.5 will be the portable data format that allows to
62 read and write rrd files across all platforms where RRDtool is supported.
63 Preliminary information about this feature can be found in
65 http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat
67 For rrdcached an authentication, authorization and encryption facility is
68 envisioned. Allowing to use rrdcacheds abilities for remote logging in a
69 wider network context.
71 Eventually RRDcached should provide full RRDtool functionality for remote
72 access, including graph and updatev functions.
74 Sponsorship 2010
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77 The 2010 sponsorship program has been setup. If you have not signed up
78 yet, I would be thrilled to have you back as sponsor for the next year.
79 Please get in touch.
81 In 2009, RRDtool has been sponsored by these companies:
83 Gold Sponsors:
85 * GroundWork Open Source - IT Monitoring & Network Solutions
86 www.groundworkopensource.com
88 * ZenOSS - Open Source Enterprise Monitoring
89 www.zenoss.com
91 Silver Sponsors:
93 * Digicomp Academy AG www.digicomp.ch
94 * Openlane Inc. www.openlane.com
95 * terreActive AG www.terreactive.ch
96 * Host Europe www.hosteurope.de
97 * Sidarion www.sidarion.ch
98 * Contego Solutions LLC www.contego.net
99 * Hitflip Media Trading GmbH www.hitflip.de
100 * Reflected Networks, Inc www.reflected.net
101 * Chinavasion Wholesale Ltd www.chinavasion.com
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104 Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland
105 2009-11-19