[rrd-users] Re: insert time-stamped data from a flat file?

[Dulac, Daniel (Dan)]

Yup.  That's exactly what I'm going to do....I just have to modify my script
to sort and group my rrd entries by time.  Thanks for everyone's help with
this!

-----Original Message-----
From: Ingimar Robertsson [mailto:iar at skyrr.is] 
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:15 AM
To: Dulac, Daniel (Dan)
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] insert time-stamped data from a flat file?

Hi there Dan.

Maybe you have to even out all your timestamps out with the step you're
using (most likely 300 seconds) and then group them together?


On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:40:05AM -0500, Dulac, Daniel (Dan) wrote:
> I am a relatively new user to RRD. I'm currently writing a perl script to
> create and update an RRD with the datasource being a flat-file.  However,
I
> seem to be running into a problem inserting data into a RRD....Here is my
> situation:
> 
>  
> 
> I have a completely different tool collecting data at various time
intervals
> (mostly 300 seconds) and writing this data to a flat-file.  Each row of
this
> flat file contains the time the data was collected, the metric (variable)
I
> am collecting, and the value (all semi-colon delimited).  At the end of
each
> day, a new flat-file is automatically created and titled with the new date
> stamp.  At the end of each day, I want to populate the RRD with this new
> data-reading from this flat-file (obviously, my script does the proper
> conversion for the RRDs::update syntax)....When running my script and
> attempting to insert data into the RRD, I get the following error
> (repeatedly with different times):
> 
>  
> 
> ERROR: illegal attempt to update using time 1039622171 when last update
time
> is 1039622235 (minimum
> 
> one second step)
> 
>  
> 
> Can anyone give me insight to what this error actually means?  Is it
> possible to use RRD with what I'm trying to accomplish?  I want to utilize
> some of the cool RRD front-ends to graph my data on a daily basis.  Thanks
> in advance for any help you can provide.
> 
>  
> 
> ___________________
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Bestu kveðjur,

Ingimar

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