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.TH EVENT2VRULE 1
.SH NAME
event2vrule \- adds 'events' to rrdtool graphs
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B event2vrule <params>
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
Adding Events to Graphs
There is a new graphing feature which allows you to specify events that should be displayed in your graphs. These events are simply a list of points in time at which something of interest occurred.
For instance, one could create a plain text file in the graphs directory called events.txt containing these lines:
2001/02/10 1538 added support for events to FlowScan graphs
2001/02/12 1601 allowed the events file to be named on make command line
Then to generate the graphs with those events included one might run:
$ make -f graphs.mf events=events.txt
This feature was implemented using a new script called event2vrule that is supplied with FlowScan. This script is meant to be used as a ``wrapper'' for running rrdtool(1), similarly to how one might run nohup(1). E.g.:
$ event2vrule -h 48 events.txt rrdtool graph -s -48h ...
That command will cause these VRULE arguments to be passed to rrdtool, at the end of the argument list:
COMMENT:\\n
VRULE:981841080#ff0000:2001/02/10 1538 added support for events to FlowScan graphs
COMMENT:\\n
VRULE:982015260#ff0000:2001/02/12 1601 allowed the events file to be named on make command line
COMMENT:\\n
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR add_ds.pl (1),
.BR add_txrx (1),
.BR flowscan (1),
.BR ip2hostname (1),
.BR locker (1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Anibal Monsalve Salazar,
for the Debian Project.
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