<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Negative numbers for GAUGE or Counter types?</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>If Counter, that could be signed 32bit counters (31bit numbers with 32 sign bit being a count back up from from -31bit to 0) ... rrdtool doesn't quite get that calculation correct so I correct for it before inserting into rrdtool. The only counters of this type I've run into are WMI and WebLogic, but that's just an aside.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>If Gauge, not sure.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>How large is largish? I don't suspect rrdtool will want a negative counter that is larger than 32bit since it does seem to try and do the signed 32bit counter rollover math.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>and I don't know why your use of it would change,
maybe it wasn't complaining before ... it's been a long time since I've used 1.3.</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I suggest you play with an rrd datafile and insert numbers to see exactly what breaks and if you believe it's a bug/missing-feature then post about it with the details.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Ryan Kubica' <kubicaryan@yahoo.com>; rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:20 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [rrd-users] Not a
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--></style><div><div class="yiv648823355WordSection1"><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; ">Nope, all the numbers are integers, integer8 – the reported numbers that are failing all appear to be large (ish) negative numbers</span></div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; ">Cheers<br>Paul</span></div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: sans-serif; "> Ryan Kubica [mailto:kubicaryan@yahoo.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> paul@oninit.com; rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rrd-users] Not a simple unsigned integer</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; ">Your code might be intermittently inserting floats for COUNTER, DERIVE or ABSOLUTE datasource types. Only integers are permitted on those datasource types.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; ">
</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; "><hr size="1" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; "> Paul Watson <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul@oninit.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul@oninit.com">paul@oninit.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch" target="_blank" href="mailto:rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch">rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a> <br><b>Sent:</b>
Friday, April 13, 2012 2:14 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> [rrd-users] Not a simple unsigned integer</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div class="yiv648823355MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><br>I've just upgraded from 1.3.8 to 1.4.7 - nothing else has changed and now<br>I'm getting 'Not a simple unsigned integer' on around 2% of my updates on<br>the rrd files, I have around 10K rrd files. All are defined the same and<br>all take similar data input<br><br>I'm stuck as to why - anyone any ideas ?<br><br>Cheers<br>Paul<br><br><br>Paul Watson<br>Oninit <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.oninit.com">www.oninit.com</a><br>Advanced DataTools <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.advancedatatools.com">www.advancedatatools.com</a><br>Tel: +1 913 674 0360<br>Cell: +1 913 387 7529<br><br>Failure is not as frightening as regret.<br>If you want to improve, be content to
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