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<div>Steve's right. Separate RRD's would be the way forward to ensure DS consistency. As a suggestion, why not write something which scrapes these RRD's periodically and collates the last DS value and drops it into a single RRD with multiple DS's…?</div>
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<div>I've always found RRDTool::OO to be particularly friendly</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Steve Shipway <<a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:22<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>'Patrik Åkerfeldt' <<a href="mailto:patrik.akerfeldt@gmail.com">patrik.akerfeldt@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:'rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch">'rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a>'" <<a href="mailto:rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch">rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [rrd-users] Post to individual data sources with multiple update requests<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">>I would like to have one RRD file with all my indoor temperatures. One DS per room. My problem
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<p class="MsoNormal">>is that I receive temperature updates as individual events, thus I would like to update the DS's in
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<p class="MsoNormal">>the RRD file with individual update calls.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">For this application, you need to have separate RRD files. You can still make a single graph holding data from multiple files; however since the
data are coming in at different points in time, and you cannot add a vector to the RRAs until you have all the elements, you should have one RRD per sample.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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