[rrd-users] Beginner RRDTool question

[Sam Crawford]

Evening all,

I'm trying to use RRDTool for a network monitoring application I'm receiving
data from. The application gives me a bytes/sec reading for active hosts
every 5 minutes (note: not all hosts, only active ones).

My problem is that I might receive a burst of data for one interval and then
nothing else for a long time. However, I still want the rrd to record and
graph it. But I can't seem to get this working!

To illustrate:

rrdtool create --start 1205088000 test.rrd --step 300
DS:InOctets:GAUGE:600:0:25000000 DS:OutOctets:GAUGE:600:0:25000000
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600
rrdtool update test.rrd -t InOctets:OutOctets 1205088300:220041:100
rrdtool fetch test.rrd AVERAGE -r 300 --start 1205088000 --end 1205088900

I'm inputting one value and trying to read the value out, but the fetch
gives me NaN for the time I input the data. All I want to be able to do is
input a value every 5 minutes and read it back. If I don't input a value for
a 5 minute interval then I'd want NaN to be recorded.

I'm sure this is all due to my fundamental misunderstanding of the
complexities of the RRA aggregation!

Thanks,

Sam
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