Thanks Simon for the link. I also used the rrdtool dump command to understand the stored data.<br>kind regards,<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Simon Hobson</b> <<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">
linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Shedi Shedi wrote:<br>>Hi,<br>><br>>i'm running the following set of commands. When the graph is
<br>>generated PDP whose value is 6 is shown on Y-axis at point 5.5 and<br>>not 6.<br>><br>><br>>rrdtool create msgmgr_basic.rrd --start 1188287728 --step 60<br>>DS:recdsuccess:GAUGE:120:U:U RRA:LAST: 0.5
:1:1440<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188287788:1<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188287848:2<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188287908:3<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188287968:4<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188288028:5
<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188288088:6<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188288148:2<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188288208:2<br>>rrdtool update msgmgr_basic.rrd 1188288268:1<br>>rrdtool graph msgmgr_basicrecd_stats.png --start 1188287728 --end
<br>>1188288268 --watermark ivems --alt-autoscale --title "iVEMS-Message<br>>Manager [Received Messages] " --vertical-label "No. of Messages"<br>>DEF:recd_success=msgmgr_basic.rrd:recdsuccess:LAST
<br>>"LINE2:recd_success#0033FF:Received Success"<br>><br>>I'm new to rrdtool and not sure what i'm doing wrong.Any hints!<br><br>What you are doing wrong is NOT reading the available documentation !
<br>You will not, ever get a value of 6 as output from that series of<br>commands<period>.<br><br><br>Go read <a href="http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/process.php">http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/process.php
</a> then you'll<br>see what's wrong. You'll also find that this is 'done to death'<br>fairly regulalry in the mailing list archives.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>rrd-users mailing list
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