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\item Read the RRDtool Manual on the web site or the unix manual
pages.\\ \cmd{http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool}
\item On the computers you can find rrdtool in \cmd{/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.23}
- To use it, update your path accordingly:
+ To use it, update your path accordingly:\\
\cmd{RH=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.23; export PATH=\$RH/bin:\$PATH}
\item Ask me!
\end{itemize}
The RRD should store the data for 24 hours at 5 minute resolution
and for a month at one hour resolution. For the one hour resolution
you want to keep both the average and the 5 minute maximum data.
+
\end{work}
+Use \cmd{rrdtool info database.rrd} to see the structure of the rrd file you
+just created.
+
\ex{Coupling of Data Values}
All values stored in a single RRD must be updated synchronously. Also,
\cmd{use lib \$ENV\{RH\}.'/lib/perl';}\\
\cmd{use RRDs;}
-
to the very beginning of your script.
\begin{work}
update.
\end{work}
+Use \cmd{rrdtool dump file.rrd} what data is stored in the rrd file.
\section{Creating graphs}
\ex{Line Graphs}