[drraw-users] documentation, FAQ, wiki.. (Was: Trying to create a Grouped Dashboard with Templates Style Regex)

[Christophe Kalt]

On Dec 19, Eric Law wrote:
| I'll try to make note of the 'mis-conceptions' I come across and any
| difficulties I encounter.

That'd be very useful :-)

| Let it be known, however, that no other tool allows me to construct
| dashboards with the power of drraw.cgi.  Most work in this arena
| favors simplifying your options (thus limiting what you can do) versus
| actually making it easier to create dashboards.

It's always good to hear.  I haven't looked at anything else
since i started working on drraw, 4 years ago, so i have no
real idea what's out there these days.

| Drraw.cgi is not so simple I can put it in front of customers, but
| it's leagues beyond what I have in any other case (which is lots of
| custom stuff on top or next to cricket).

Should be simple enough to show already-made graphs, templates
and dashboards, no?
Definitely not simple when it comes to editing any of the
above.  RRDtool knowledge is a must, knowledge of the data you
have and how it's spread in the RRD files is also quite
useful.  Dashboards are overly complex, but as you hinted
above, i'm not sure much can be done about this (except better
documentation) without limiting what can be done.
It's been a while since i've done any real editing work with
drraw, and *i* have forgotten how things work.  I had to read
the doc to answer your earlier posts.  (But then again, that's
always why i write docs, to have the luxury to forget!)
Granted, it's much easier for me to make sense of things, and
remember than it is for a newcomer :-)