[rrd-users] back filling an rrd

[Rick Dicaire]

Steve, thanks, I realized that a few minutes after sending the email. User
error *sigh*


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Steve Shipway <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>wrote:

> Your heartbeat is too small, and so it expires before the updates come in.
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> You have a step of 86400 sec, which correctly corresponds to the interval
> between your updates.
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> However, the heartbeat for ds0 is 43200.  Therefore, each update will have
> expired before being made.
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> Generally, you should make the heartbeat twice the step, unless you have
> specific reasons not to.
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> Steve
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> *Steve Shipway*
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> s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz
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> *From:* rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch[mailto:
> rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch] *On Behalf
> Of *Rick Dicaire
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 May 2014 1:47 p.m.
> *To:* rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> *Subject:* [rrd-users] back filling an rrd
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> I have an rrd I created, it starts at epoch date 1377993600.
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>         $PROG create $RRDFILE \
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>         --step '86400' \
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>         --start '1377993600' \
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>         'DS:ds0:GAUGE:43200:U:U' \
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>         'RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:730'
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> I have a script with data to update the rrd, here's the first few lines:
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1380600000:0
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1380686400:0
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1380772800:0
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1380859200:0
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1380945600:0
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1381032000:0
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1381118400:937500000000
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1381204800:975000000000
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1381291200:1875000000000
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1381377600:2275000000000
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1381464000:2975000000000
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> rrdtool updatev f5_scraper.rrd 1381550400:475000000000
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> In all there's 224 update lines, with epoch timestamps 86400 seconds apart.
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> I run the script, no errors, but no data gets input into the rrd.
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> Am I doing something wrong?
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