X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Frrdcreate.pod;h=d516ab401844bdf41c52e9eb72ee489b69f6a5bb;hb=bf7d0302ab2ff46038f7002a9eab76f4105c3cee;hp=74cfa34510a32b0906742f7e29d9e8e2fbb5476a;hpb=a278779cdf2ded56b89fc404d6914bff7ad7dcbd;p=rrdtool.git diff --git a/doc/rrdcreate.pod b/doc/rrdcreate.pod index 74cfa34..d516ab4 100644 --- a/doc/rrdcreate.pod +++ b/doc/rrdcreate.pod @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ the 32bit or 64bit border and acts accordingly by adding an appropriate value to will store the derivative of the line going from the last to the current value of the data source. This can be useful for gauges, for example, to measure the rate of people entering or leaving a -room. Internally, derive works exaclty like COUNTER but without +room. Internally, derive works exactly like COUNTER but without overflow checks. So if your counter does not reset at 32 or 64 bit you might want to use DERIVE and combine it with a MIN value of 0. @@ -154,14 +154,15 @@ I defines the formula used to compute the PDPs of a COMPUTE data source from other data sources in the same . It is similar to defining a B argument for the graph command. Please refer to that manual page for a list and description of RPN operations supported. For -COMPUTE data sources, the following RPN operations are not supported: PREV, +COMPUTE data sources, the following RPN operations are not supported: COUNT, PREV, TIME, and LTIME. In addition, in defining the RPN expression, the COMPUTE data source may only refer to the names of data source listed previously in the create command. This is similar to the restriction that Bs must refer only to Bs and Bs previously defined in the same graph command. =item BIB<:>I - + + The purpose of an B is to store data in the round robin archives (B). An archive consists of a number of data values or statistics for each of the defined data-sources (B) and is defined with an B line. @@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ I defines how many generations of data values are kept in an B. =back -=head1 Aberrant Behaviour detection with Holt-Winters forecasting +=head1 Aberrant Behavior Detection with Holt-Winters Forecasting by Jake Brutlag Ejakeb@corp.webtv.netE @@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ together with the time. =item Mail Messages -Assume you have a methode to count the number of messages transported by +Assume you have a method to count the number of messages transported by your mailserver in a certain amount of time, this give you data like '5 messages in the last 65 seconds'. If you look at the count of 5 like and B datatype you can simply update the rrd with the number 5 and the @@ -427,7 +428,7 @@ A few archives areas are also defined. The first stores the temperatures supplied for 100 hours (1200 * 300 seconds = 100 hours). The second RRA stores the minimum temperature recorded over every hour (12 * 300 seconds = 1 hour), for 100 days (2400 hours). The -third and the fourth RRA's do the same with the for the maximum and +third and the fourth RRA's do the same for the maximum and average temperature, respectively. =head1 EXAMPLE 2