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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]  [--mini-
       mum|-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 scale-value]     [--deltaneg scale-value]
       [--failure-threshold failure-threshold] [--window-length	window-length]
       [--alpha	adaption-parameter] [--beta adaption-parameter]	[--gamma adap-
       tion-parameter]	[--gamma-deviation adaption-parameter] [--aberrant-re-
       set ds-name]

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 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.

       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 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	confi-
	       dence bounds. The graph scale factor need not to	agree with the
	       value used internally by	the FAILURES RRA.

       --deltaneg 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 failure-threshold
	       Alter the number	of confidence bound violations that constitute
	       a failure for purposes of the FAILURES RRA. This	must be	an in-
	       teger 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  simultane-
	       ously.  Setting	this option will reset the count of violations
	       to 0.

       --window-length window-length
	       Alter the number	of time	points in the temporal window for  de-
	       termining  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	viola-
	       tions to	0.

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

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

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

       --gamma-deviation adaption-parameter
	       Alter the seasonal deviation adaptation parameter for  the  DE-
	       VSEASONAL RRA. This parameter must be between 0 and 1.

       --aberrant-reset	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  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  coeffi-
	       cients  to  unknown. For	the FAILURES RRA, it erases the	viola-
	       tion history. Note that reset does not erase  past  predictions
	       (the  values  of	 the HWPREDICT 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 ba-
	       sis. During bootstrap  initialization  this  smoothing  is  de-
	       ferred.	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 con-
	       sequences, 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 man-
	       ner.

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 10'000 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.

AUTHOR
       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>

1.2.30				  2009-01-19			    RRDTUNE(1)

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