[rrd-users] Start time with rrdtool create

Tobias Oetiker tobi at oetiker.ch
Fri Jul 6 17:22:02 CEST 2007


Gelnn,

use rrdtool info or rrdtool dump to see what is in the rrd file ...
rrdxport is for reports ...

cheers
tobi

Today Glenn MacGregor wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am using rrdtool 1.2.23 trying to create a rrd file starting 1 month
> ago.
>
> rrdtool create test.rrd --step 300 --start 1180670400
> DS:param:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1200 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:336
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:372 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:144:730
>
> output from rrdtool xport:
> <start>1183646700</start>
> <step>300</step>
> <end>1183733100</end>
>
> As you can see the start time is quite a bit different than the start
> time I input. Is there a reason for this discrepancy?
>
> Thanks
>
>  Glenn
>
>
>
>

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