Hi Dulac "Dulac, Daniel (Dan)" wrote: > > I have a completely different tool collecting data at various time intervals > (mostly 300 seconds) and writing this data to a flat-file. Each row of this > flat file contains the time the data was collected, the metric (variable) I
Why do you write in a file instead of updating instantly? > stamp. At the end of each day, I want to populate the RRD with this new As far as i know you _can not_ update the whole at the end of the day. > data-reading from this flat-file (obviously, my script does the proper > conversion for the RRDs::update syntax)....When running my script and > attempting to insert data into the RRD, I get the following error > (repeatedly with different times): > > ERROR: illegal attempt to update using time 1039622171 when last update time > is 1039622235 (minimum You want to insert data at a timestamp before the last update: Want to update: > using time 1039622171 Real last update: > last update time is 1039622235 where 1039622171 is before 1039622235! This is not possible. An update is always _past_ the last date. > one second step) > > > > Can anyone give me insight to what this error actually means? Is it > possible to use RRD with what I'm trying to accomplish? I want to utilize This would not be the intention of RRDTool to update RRDS at one time a day. RRDTool is to update on regulary continous times step by step. > Dan > Bye, Ecaroh -- Gerhard Ecaroh Froehlich, Systemadministrator -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
