On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Traiano Welcome wrote: > Hi List > > I'm seeing what appears to be my rrd files not storing the values I > added using "rrdtool update", i.e I update the rrd file with one set of > values (network traffic_in and traffic_out counter values) and rrdtool > fetch shows completely different values for the corresponding > time-slots. This causes me to wonder if my rrd update options or rrd > file structure is wrong. Process illustrated below:
A COUNTER will use the difference between successive updates and the times of the updates to calculate a rate. It won't store the raw data you enter. > DS:traffic_in:COUNTER:600:0:1.8446744074e+17 \ > DS:traffic_out:COUNTER:600:0:1.8446744074e+17 \ > Values are polled using snmpget and updated every 5 minutes (from cron) > using this rrdupdate command, for example: > > --- > rrdtool update vlan_interface_traffic.rrd 1251991500:146522079:2005725 > --- Withouth showing an adjacent update, we can't tell what would be entered. > Correspondingly, the graphs show traffic several orders of magnitude > lower than it should. You're seeing the differences, not the raw numbers. -- Darren _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
