Post-Installation Procedure =========================== Before starting the rrdbot daemon for the first time, you need to perform some necessary steps: 1. Create configuration file(s) of what you wish to monitor, and and place them in %%PREFIX%%/etc/rrdbot 2. Create the RRD files based on the above configuration file(s), using %%PREFIX%%/sbin/rrdbot-create When creating your rrdbot configuration files which use the "archive" feature, be sure your archive durations are correct mathematically when compared to the actual SNMP polling interval. For example, assuming your SNMP polling interval is 30: 6/minute -- won't work (6*30 = 180 seconds) 2/minute -- will work (2*30 = 60 seconds) Otherwise you'll receive this kind of warning when using rrdbot-create: rrdbot-create: my.conf: archive has too many data points for polling interval. ignoring Once you've followed these steps, you can start the daemon by setting rrdbot_enable="yes" in rc.conf, and then execute: %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/rrdbot start If you forgot to run rrdbot-create, rrdbotd will start but will silently fail when trying to write data to the non-existent RRD. So please be sure to follow the above!