[rrd-users] Re: Help using rrdtool update

[Neil Calvert]

Alex,

Well, I already did the debug - echo statements work perfectly.
(although I should have said so!). However, your in= out= statements
seem to be more acceptable to RRDTOOL than my arrays and echo
statements, as it now is updating nicely. I think you're right about the
spaces, or something along those lines.

As long as it works now, I won't lose too much sleep over it...

Thanks!

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex van den Bogaerdt <alex at slot.hollandcasino.nl>
To: Neil Calvert <ncalvert at cabletron.com>
Cc: RRD users <rrd-users at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Help using rrdtool update


>> I'm trying a very basic script to be run with cron to pump two values
>> into a database (ifinoctets and ifoutoctets) - basically following
the
>> tutorial. Unfortunately, RRDTOOL is coredumping when I run this
script..
>> I wondered if anyone could take a look at it and suggest where I'm
>> screwing up...?
>>
>
>Core dump is not good in any case. If the input is wrong, it should
>complain.
>
>> Script :
>>
>> #!/bin/ksh
>> rrdarray[0]="`snmpget -v1 $1 $2 2.2.1.10.1 | awk '{print $3}'`"
>> rrdarray[1]="`snmpget -v1 $1 $2 2.2.1.16.1 | awk '{print $3}'`"
>> /apps/RRD/bin/rrdtool update /apps/RRD/mycsx.rrd N:`echo
>> ${rrdarray[0]}`:`echo ${rrdarray[1]}`
>>
>
>Two things:
>1) make it more simple.
>2) Try debugging
>
>How?
>
>1) Alter your scipt:
>#!/bin/ksh
>in="`snmpget -v1 $1 $2 2.2.1.10.1 | awk '{print $3}'`"
>out="`snmpget -v1 $1 $2 2.2.1.16.1 | awk '{print $3}'`"
>/apps/RRD/bin/rrdtool update /apps/RRD/mycsx.rrd N:$in:$out
>
>2) Change "/apps/RRD/bin/rrdtool" into "echo" and inspect its output.
>
>You may have spaces in the output of snmpget. Because of the quotes
>these won't get removed. This may upset rrdtool.
>--
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