[rrd-users] rrdtool update multiple files error

[pamela.patterson at bell.ca]

Argghh, I see the problem now that I try to get the data together.
Sometimes each check reports more often than once per second for some
reason.  It's amazing how trying to explain a problem to someone else
helps find the solution :P

Thanks for the confirmation that it should work the way I thought it
would.

Regards,
	Pam

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From: andy.riebs at hp.com [mailto:andy.riebs at hp.com] 
Sent: January 7, 2009 11:16 AM
To: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Cc: Patterson, Pamela (521361)
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] rrdtool update multiple files error

Hi Pamela,
You're right, independent RRD files are independent, and so you should
be able to do what you are describing.
Can you provide any detail at all about how you are updating the files?
Andy
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 11:11:41 am pamela.patterson at bell.ca wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I am getting errors trying to update more than one .rrd file with
> different data with the same timestamp. The data comes from Nagios
> logging many checks of different servers to syslog. I understand that
> you can only update once per second in the same .rrd file, but it
looks
> like you should be able to update two or more files with different
data
> in the same second, like updating the machinename_uptime.rrd file with
> uptime data and the machinename_memory.rrd file with memory data, both
> with the same timestamp. However I get an error on the second rrdtool
> update unless the timestamp has changed, even though the files are
> different.
>
> I am running CentOS release 4.7, with RRDtool 1.0.50, which looks like
> a very old release. Can anyone tell me if this is a version issue? If
> so, I will work on getting a more recent version into the standard
> build.
>
> Thanx for any info anyone can give me,
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