[Orca-dev] Re: another new feature

[Blair Zajac]

Alex,

Thanks for the patch.  Its been included it in the current code base
being used for the next release of Orca.

Regards,
Blair

Alex Howansky wrote:
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> Attached are three small patches for orca, Config.pm, and ImageFile.pm. They
> add the ability to specify a formatting string for the summary values at the
> bottom of the graph. For example, previously, a graph might have looked
> something like:
> 
> Things  Current:    4.2 k  Average:    3.9 k  Min:    0.1 k  Max:   19.1 k
> 
> All the numbers were formatted with a hard-coded "%9.3lf %s". By using the
> summary_format option in the plot section of the config file, you can specify
> this:
> 
> plot {
> source things
> data things
> summary_format %.0lf
> }
> 
> which would cause the summary to look like this:
> 
> Things  Current: 4213  Average: 3931  Min: 142  Max: 19103
> 
> The same format is used for each number within a single summary line, but you
> can specify multiple summary_format options if there are multiple plots on the
> graph:
> 
> plot {
> source things
> data things
> data other
> summary_format %.0lf
> summary_format %4.1f%s
> color 0000ff
> color ff0000
> }
> 
> Including the %s in the format string will cause RRDTool to auto-scale the
> value and add the appropriate "k" or "M" or whatever.
> 
> --
> Alex Howansky
> Wankwood Associates
> http://www.wankwood.com/
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