LISA 2008 Workshop

RRDtool by Example
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A half-day workshop by Tobias Oetiker

Abstract
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Over the last few years RRDtool has become the standard method for handling
time-series data in the networking area. RRDtool takes care of all the work
related to data storage and presentation. Many users only access
RRDtool through some front-end application like Cacti or Cricket. 

In this half day workshop you will get eye to eye through many example
usages as they are demonstrated and explained live.

Attendees are expected to have some scripting experience.

Topics
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* RRDtool Overview

  * Rundown on Components of RRDtool
  * Update on new functionality introduced in version 1.3

* The RRD Database Format

  * How RRDtool stores that data
  * Interaction with the OS cache sub-system
  * Linux tricks
  * Fixing 'bad data' after the fact

* How to setup an RRD performance test

* RRD Graphing

  * Simple graphs and autoconfiguration
  * Alternate scaling
  * Working with transparency
  * Creating gradients
  * RPN magic

* Putting it Together

  * Scripting interface
  * The graphv, updatev, and info interfaces

About the Speaker
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Tobias Oetiker is an electrical engineer by education and a system
administrator by vocation. For ten years he has been working for the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, providing students
and staff with a deluxe Unix workstation environment. In 2006 he
started his own company OETIKER+PARTNER AG, running Unix servers for
industry customers, improving his pet open source projects MRTG,
RRDtool, and SmokePing, and applying these tools to solve the customers'
problems.

In November 2006, Tobias received the prestigious SAGE Outstanding
Achievement Award for his work on MRTG and RRDtool.

Find out more about the Speaker on http://tobi.oetiker.ch