What determines the name of the rrd file

[ajeffco]

Hello All,

I've searched for this on the forum, but haven't seen any references to it. I'm hoping it's not something so simple that I should have seen it from another source, say, the documentation

I'm trying to figure out what determines the name of the rrd files that are created by cacti. I'm using the brocade templates found here, and they are working well. However, using the weathermap plugin, which is also working well, when I select the TARGET for the links, finding the name of the link isn't a straightforward thing. I have to go into the graph properties for that device/port graph to get the filename.

Rather than naming it something like "$HOSTNAME-port#", it's "$HOSTNAME_swfcporttxwords_#.rrd". swfcporttxwords is one the graph item inputs for this particular graph template. If you remove/add devices, even if you add the same device/port, it's a new filename, even if the old one has been deleted.

Maybe this is by design... I was just trying to figure out a way so that it's a "normalized" rrd filename based on the host and port. To me, it would make more sense to make the RRD filename be "$HOSTNAME_$ifindex.rrd"

Hope that makes sense (tired)

TIA,

Al

[Howie]

[gandalf]

Moved to Weathermap Forum
Reinhard

[dmann]

I cant find it at network-weathermap.com - can someone point me to the right location? I have this same question.

Thanks

[Howie]