How to see the values which is in RRD files

[sujithkumar]

Hi,
CACti is configured with few nodes, it is UP and running. I can view the Graphs but When i access the cacti DB from MYSQL it has only the information of link path to the RRD files. But if i want to check the Jitter value or Latency values manually i need to check by opening RRD files for each node. Can anybody Plz help me how to do.

[Linegod]

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrddump.en.html

[sujithkumar]

Hi
Thanks for the reply. It was very useful. I have got another doubt if i directly take an RRD file from one machine and paste it into another machine and if i try to read the file using RRD dump is it possible???? will it wok???

[Linegod]

As long as they are the same architecture (both x86, or both x86-64), it will work.

[gandalf]

Hi
Thanks for the reply. It was very useful. I have got another doubt if i directly take an RRD file from one machine and paste it into another machine and if i try to read the file using RRD dump is it possible???? will it wok???

And in case it's not same arch, please see migration help at 1st link of my sig
R.

[sujithkumar]

Hi Linegod & gandalf,

Thanks for the reply. From customer directly am getting the RRD files, But the link which you have provided in that it says to dump the RRD data into XML format and then again I have to restore it using RRDrestore command. can you explain me

[gandalf]

When migrating from one server to another one on same architecture, you may copy the rrd files.

When migrating between different architectures (e.g. 32bit to 64 bit or FreeBSD to Linux or AMD to Intel), you will have to dump the rrd files using rrdtool dump. Then, copy those XML files to new server and restore using rrdtool restore to get your rrd files up and running again.

That's what happens when using my script.

R.

[sujithkumar]

Hi Gandalf,
Thanks for the reply. I checked as you were instructed its working. But i got into another complicated situation.
Now customer is providing the RRD files directly to us for every 1 hour. For 1 hour the /rra/ folder size is 1 GB so perday 24 GB i will get it. i have to copy it into my system and then dump it using RRDtool dump command and i will use that XML file for parsing and i will upload it into mssql server DB. Is there any other Easy way to store those values directly into MSSQL server DB.

[gandalf]

There has been some work on the rrdtool side to store into a db. But that's nothing I tried yet.
R.

[sujithkumar]

Can you guide me so that I will try it out.

[gandalf]

To my knowledge, this has only been discussed on the rrdtool-users mailinglist
R.

[sujithkumar]

Hi,
Can you help me to install RRDtool in windows 7 64 bit system. So that i can run the RRDtool dump command in my windows 7 64bit system and it will be helpful for Parsing the XML data into MSSQL server DB

[sujithkumar]

Hi
I have around 25 cisco routers help me to configure the CACTI to monitor QOS related informations like jitter, Latency, RTT and drop rate in interfaces. can anybody Plz guide how to do??