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RRDTUNE(1)			    rrdtool			    RRDTUNE(1)

NAME
       rrdtune - Modify	some basic properties of a Round Robin Database

SYNOPSIS
       rrdtool tune filename [--heartbeat|-h ds-name:heartbeat]
       [--minimum|-i ds-name:min] [--maximum|-a	ds-name:max]
       [--data-source-type|-d ds-name:DST] [--data-source-rename|-r old-
       name:new-name] [--deltapos|-p scale-value] [--deltaneg|-n scale-value]
       [--failure-threshold|-f failure-threshold] [--window-length|-w window-
       length] [--alpha|-x adaption-parameter] [--beta|-y adaption-parameter]
       [--gamma|-z adaption-parameter] [--gamma-deviation|-v adaption-
       parameter] [--smoothing-window|-s fraction-of-season]
       [--smoothing-window-deviation|-S	fraction-of-season]
       [--aberrant-reset|-b ds-name] [--step|-t	newstep] [--daemon|-D address]
       [DEL:ds-name] [DS:ds-spec] [DELRRA:index] [RRA:rra-spec]
       [RRA#index:[+-=]<number]>

DESCRIPTION
       The tune	option allows you to alter some	of the basic configuration
       values stored in	the header area	of a Round Robin Database (RRD).

       One application of the tune function is to relax	the validation rules
       on an RRD. This allows you to fill a new	RRD with data available	in
       larger intervals	than what you would normally want to permit. Be	very
       careful with tune operations for	COMPUTE	data sources.  Setting the
       min, max, and  heartbeat	for a COMPUTE data source without changing the
       data source type	to a non-COMPUTE DST WILL corrupt the data source
       header in the RRD.

       A second	application of the tune	function is to set or alter parameters
       used by the specialized function	RRAs for aberrant behavior detection.

       Still another application is to add or remove data sources (DS) or add
       / remove	or alter some aspects of round-robin archives (RRA). These
       operations are not really done in-place,	but rather generate a new RRD
       file internally and move	it over	the original file. Data	is kept	intact
       during these operations.	 For even more in-depth	modifications you may
       review the --source and --template options of the create	function which
       allow you to combine multiple RRD files into a new one and which	is
       even more clever	in what	data it	is able	to keep	or "regenerate".

       filename
	       The name	of the RRD you want to tune.

       --heartbeat|-h ds-name:heartbeat
	       modify  the  heartbeat  of  a data source. By setting this to a
	       high value the RRD will accept things like one value per	day.

       --minimum|-i ds-name:min
	       alter the minimum value	acceptable  as	input  from  the  data
	       source.	Setting	min to 'U' will	disable	this limit.

       --maximum|-a ds-name:max
	       alter  the  maximum  value  acceptable  as  input from the data
	       source.	Setting	max to 'U' will	disable	this limit.

       --data-source-type|-d ds-name:DST
	       alter the type DST of a data source.

       --data-source-rename|-r old-name:new-name
	       rename a	data source.

       --deltapos|-p scale-value
	       Alter the deviation scaling factor for the upper	bound  of  the
	       confidence band used internally to calculate violations for the
	       FAILURES	 RRA. The default value	is 2. Note that	this parameter
	       is not related to graphing  confidence  bounds  which  must  be
	       specified   as  a  CDEF	argument  to  generate	a  graph  with
	       confidence bounds. The graph scale factor  need	not  to	 agree
	       with the	value used internally by the FAILURES RRA.

       --deltaneg|-n scale-value
	       Alter  the  deviation scaling factor for	the lower bound	of the
	       confidence band used internally to calculate violations for the
	       FAILURES	RRA. The default value is 2. As	with --deltapos,  this
	       argument	 is unrelated to the scale factor chosen when graphing
	       confidence bounds.

       --failure-threshold|-f failure-threshold
	       Alter the number	of confidence bound violations that constitute
	       a failure for purposes of the FAILURES RRA.  This  must	be  an
	       integer less than or equal to the window	length of the FAILURES
	       RRA.  This  restriction	is not verified	by the tune option, so
	       one   can    reset    failure-threshold	  and	 window-length
	       simultaneously.	Setting	 this  option  will reset the count of
	       violations to 0.

       --window-length|-w window-length
	       Alter the number	of time	points	in  the	 temporal  window  for
	       determining  failures.  This must be an integer greater than or
	       equal to	the window length of the FAILURES RRA and less than or
	       equal to	28. Setting  this  option  will	 reset	the  count  of
	       violations to 0.

       --alpha|-x adaption-parameter
	       Alter  the  intercept adaptation	parameter for the Holt-Winters
	       forecasting algorithm. This parameter must be between 0 and 1.

       --beta|-y adaption-parameter
	       Alter the  slope	 adaptation  parameter	for  the  Holt-Winters
	       forecasting algorithm. This parameter must be between 0 and 1.

       --gamma|-z adaption-parameter
	       Alter  the  seasonal  coefficient  adaptation parameter for the
	       SEASONAL	RRA. This parameter must be between 0 and 1.

       --gamma-deviation|-v adaption-parameter
	       Alter the  seasonal  deviation  adaptation  parameter  for  the
	       DEVSEASONAL RRA.	This parameter must be between 0 and 1.

       --smoothing-window|-s fraction-of-season
	       Alter  the  size	 of the	smoothing window for the SEASONAL RRA.
	       This must be between 0 and 1.

       --smoothing-window-deviation|-S fraction-of-season
	       Alter the size of the smoothing window for the DEVSEASONAL RRA.
	       This must be between 0 and 1.

       --aberrant-reset|-b ds-name
	       This option causes the aberrant behavior	detection algorithm to
	       reset for the specified data source; that is, forget all	it  is
	       has   learnt  so	 far.	Specifically,  for  the	 HWPREDICT  or
	       MHWPREDICT RRA, it sets the intercept and slope coefficients to
	       unknown.	 For  the  SEASONAL  RRA,   it	 sets	all   seasonal
	       coefficients  to	 unknown. For the DEVSEASONAL RRA, it sets all
	       seasonal	deviation coefficients to unknown.  For	 the  FAILURES
	       RRA,  it	erases the violation history. Note that	reset does not
	       erase  past  predictions	 (the  values  of  the	HWPREDICT   or
	       MHWPREDICT  RRA),  predicted  deviations	 (the  values  of  the
	       DEVPREDICT RRA),	or failure history (the	values of the FAILURES
	       RRA).  This option will function	even if	 not  all  the	listed
	       RRAs are	present.

	       Due  to the implementation of this option, there	is an indirect
	       impact on other data sources in the RRD.	A smoothing  algorithm
	       is  applied  to	SEASONAL  and DEVSEASONAL values on a periodic
	       basis.  During  bootstrap  initialization  this	smoothing   is
	       deferred.  For  efficiency,  the	implementation of smoothing is
	       not data	source specific. This means that utilizing  reset  for
	       one  data source	will delay running the smoothing algorithm for
	       all data	sources	in the file. This is unlikely to have  serious
	       consequences, unless the	data being collected for the non-reset
	       data  sources is	unusually volatile during the reinitialization
	       period of the reset data	source.

	       Use of this tuning option is advised when the behavior  of  the
	       data  source  time  series  changes  in a drastic and permanent
	       manner.

       --step|-t newstep
	       Changes the step	size of	the RRD	to newstep.

	       TODO: add proper	documentation

       --daemon|-D address
	       NOTE: Because the -d (small  letter  'd')  option  was  already
	       taken,  this  function  (unlike	most  other)  uses the capital
	       letter 'D' for the one-letter option to name the	cache daemon.

	       If given, RRDtool will try to connect  to  the  caching	daemon
	       rrdcached  at address and will fail if the connection cannot be
	       established. If the connection is successfully established  the
	       data  for  the  filename	 will be flushed before	performing the
	       copy/modify  operation.	Afterwards  the	  filename   will   be
	       forgotten  by  the  cache daemon, so that the next access using
	       the caching daemon will read the	proper structure.

	       This sequence of	operations is designed to achieve a consistent
	       overall result with respect to RRD  internal  file  consistency
	       when  using  one	of the DS or RRA changing operations (that is:
	       the  resulting  file  should  always  be	 a  valid  RRD	 file,
	       regardless  of  concurrent updates through the caching daemon).
	       Regarding  data	consistency  such  guarantees  are  not	 made:
	       Without	external  synchronization  concurrent  updates	may be
	       lost.

	       For a list of accepted  formats,	 see  the  -l  option  in  the
	       rrdcached manual.

       DEL:ds-name
	       Every  data  source  named  with	 a  DEL	 specification will be
	       removed.	 The resulting RRD will	miss both the  definition  and
	       the  data for that data source. Multiple	DEL specifications are
	       permitted.

       DS:ds-spec
	       For every such data source definition (for the exact syntax see
	       the create command), a new data source will  be	added  to  the
	       RRD. Multiple DS	specifications are permitted.

       DELRRA:index
	       Removes the RRA with index index. The index is zero-based, that
	       is the very first RRA has index 0.

       RRA:rra-spec
	       For every such archive definition (for the exact	syntax see the
	       create  command),  a  new  RRA will be added to the output RRD.
	       Multiple	RRA specifications are permitted.

       RRA#index:[+-=]<number>
	       Adds/removes or sets the	given number of	rows for the RRA  with
	       index  <index>. The index is zero-based,	that is	the very first
	       RRA has index 0.

EXAMPLE	1
       "rrdtool	tune data.rrd -h in:100000 -h out:100000 -h through:100000"

       Set the minimum required	heartbeat for data  sources  'in',  'out'  and
       'through'  to  100'000  seconds	which  is  a  little  over  one	day in
       data.rrd.  This would allow to feed old data from MRTG-2.0  right  into
       RRDtool without generating *UNKNOWN* entries.

EXAMPLE	2
       "rrdtool	tune monitor.rrd --window-length 5 --failure-threshold 3"

       If the FAILURES RRA is implicitly created, the default window-length is
       9  and  the  default failure-threshold is 7. This command now defines a
       failure as 3 or more violations in a temporal window of 5 time points.

EXAMPLE	3
       "rrdtool	tune some.rrd DEL:a RRA#0:+10"

       Delete the data source named a and extend the very first	archive	by  10
       rows.   This  will in fact replace the input RRD	with a new RRD keeping
       all existing data.  For most practical use cases	this is	identical to a
       real in-place modification.

AUTHORS
       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>, Peter Stamfest	<peter@stamfest.at>

1.9.0				  2024-07-29			    RRDTUNE(1)

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