RRDTOOL(1) rrdtool RRDTOOL(1) (NAME) rrdtool - (Round Robin Database Tool) (SYNOPSIS) rrdtool - [workdir]| function (DESCRIPTION) (OVERVIEW) (octets) FDDI . . RRDtool . (DS) . RRDtool . (RRDtool) . RRDtool . RRDtool rrdtutorial ..SS " (FUNCTIONS)" (man pages) RRDtool RRDtool (pipes) . RRDtool . <> . (language bindings) RRDtool Perl python Tcl PHP . create Round Robin Database (RRD) . rrdcreate . update RRD. rrdupdate . updatev update . rrdupdate . graph RRD. stdout . rrdgraph . graphv RRD. graph . rrdgraph . dump RRD ASCII . restore RRD . rrddump . restore RRD XML RRD . rrdrestore . fetch RRD. graph RRD fetch . rrdfetch . tune RRD. rrdtune . first RRD. rrdfirst . last RRD. rrdlast . lastupdate RRD. . rrdlastupdate . info RRD. rrdinfo . resize RRA . ! rrdresize . xport RRD. rrdxport . flushcached RRD . rrdflushcached . list rrd . rrdlist . RRDTOOL (HOW DOES RRDTOOL WORK?) (Data Acquisition) . . RRDtool . (DS) ( ) . . (Consolidation) . . . RRDtool . Round Robin Database (RRD) (CF) ( ) (rrdcreate ). RRD . RRD . (Round Robin Archives) Round Robin Archives (RRA) . . : ' RRDtool ' (header) . () . (round robin) Round Robin Archive . ' ( ) . RRA RRD . RRA RRD . . (CF) : LAN ... . (Unknown Data) RRD . RRD . . RRDtool *UNKNOWN* . '*UNKNOWN*' . *UNKNOWN* Round Robin Archive (RRA) . *UNKNOWN* RRA . (Graphing) RRDtool RRD . . . rrdgraph . (Aberrant Behavior Detection) Jake Brutlag RRDtool (near real-time) . : o . o . o () . : Holt-Winters (on-line ) . : ( ) ( ) ( ). () . (exponential smoothing) . << >> . : alpha ( ) beta () gamma (). . . . Holt-Winters ( ) . . (confidence bands) ( ). ( ) ( ). RRA . RRA FAILURES . (front-end) RRDtool . rrdcreate . RRDtool '-' (STDIN) . RRDtool (MRTG ) (pipes) . RRDtool cd mkdir pwd ls quit . : rrdtool help cd RRDtool '"OK"' u:usertime s:systemtimer:runtime . usertime systemtime RRDtool . runtime RRDtool . '"ERROR:" ' . RRDtool . workdir (UID) 0 RRDtool chroot workdir . UID 0 RRDtool workdir . RRD (RRD Server) RRD-Server TCP/IP /etc/services : rrdsrv 13900/tcp # RRD server : TCP 13900 rrdsrv . services . RRDtool (meta-server) /etc/inetd.conf . : rrdsrv stream tcp nowait root /opt/rrd/bin/rrdtool rrdtool - /var/rrd /var/rrd inetd . Perl netcat 'telnet localhost rrdsrv' . : ! . (ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES) . RRD_LOCKING RRD : - try . . - block . - none . "fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, ...)" . (--locking) . RRDCACHED (RRDCACHED, THE CACHING DAEMON) RRD / (IO) . rrdcached RRDtool ..SH " (SEE ALSO)" rrdcreate, rrdupdate, rrdgraph, rrddump, rrdfetch, rrdtune, rrdlast, rrdxport, rrdflushcached, rrdcached (BUGS) ! (AUTHORS) Tobias Oetiker 1.11.0 2026-08-08 RRDTOOL(1)