event2vrule (1)

event2vrule <params>

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

add_ds.pl(1), add_txrx(1), flowscan(1), ip2hostname(1), locker(1)

This manual page was written by Anibal Monsalve Salazar, for the Debian Project.