[rrd-users] Re: rrdtool not storing data, returns nothing.

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:51:16PM +0200, swarog at gmaz.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I'm honestly unable to trace it.
> Each of the updates is not returning anything. If issued in pipe mode it
> return 'OK'.
> <lastupdate> shows correct time of last update, but ds data is not
> updatated. As you can see <last_ds> is UNKN.

It _is_ updating.

> last_update = 1162357348

This is: Wed Nov  1 06:02:28 2006 MET DST.

Four possibilities:

1: all your updates are before the last update.  In this case I wouldn't
   expect "OK" from the pipe though.  I mean: you are trying to update
   a file that already exists and thus rejects your updates because they
   are too old.

2: all your updates are further apart than your step size. In that
   case all are ignored, replaced by NaN and written to the RRA

3: one of your updates falls outside the maximum allowed range.
   This results in NaN, and you use grep -v to discard the entire line.

4: all your updates have occured, and you are trying to find
   data that isn't there anymore.  Try rrdtool fetch --end 1162357348 AVERAGE
   or something similar.

To debug:

Try a smaller database, with just one rra and one ds.  Then to one
update, dump the database to a file, do another update, dump again
but to a different file.  See what changed.

Approach your problem step by step.  Use the tutorial and/or my
site and/or the documentation.  See what rrdtool is supposed to
do and then look why your input does not result in this.

If you think you have found a bug, show this using a self contained
example, a small one, that generates a file, does a couple of updates
and shows output.  Use timestamps, not "now", so that it can be
reproduced.

-- 
Alex van den Bogaerdt
http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/

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