[rrd-users] RRD files not correctly storing the values added using rrdtool update

[Traiano Welcome]

Doh! Thanks, that fixed it :-)

Regards,
Traiano

A Darren Dunham wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Traiano Welcome wrote:
>   
>> Hi List
>>
>> I'm seeing what appears to be my rrd files not storing the values I 
>> added using "rrdtool update", i.e I update the rrd file with one set of 
>> values (network traffic_in and traffic_out counter values) and rrdtool 
>> fetch shows completely different values for the corresponding 
>> time-slots. This causes me to wonder if my rrd update options or rrd 
>> file structure is wrong. Process illustrated below:
>>     
>
> A COUNTER will use the difference between successive updates and the
> times of the updates to calculate a rate.  It won't store the raw data
> you enter.
>
>   
>> DS:traffic_in:COUNTER:600:0:1.8446744074e+17 \
>> DS:traffic_out:COUNTER:600:0:1.8446744074e+17 \
>>     
>
>   
>> Values are polled using snmpget and updated every 5 minutes (from cron) 
>> using this rrdupdate command, for example:
>>
>> ---
>> rrdtool update vlan_interface_traffic.rrd 1251991500:146522079:2005725
>> ---
>>     
>
> Withouth showing an adjacent update, we can't tell what would be
> entered. 
>
>   
>> Correspondingly, the graphs show  traffic several orders of magnitude 
>> lower than it should.
>>     
>
> You're seeing the differences, not the raw numbers.  
>
>