Doh! Thanks, that fixed it :-) Regards, Traiano
A Darren Dunham wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
