[rrd-users] Graphing potentially missing files

[Simon Hobson]

Steve Shipway wrote:

>Why not use rrdcached in TCP mode to send the updates from your 
>routers over to a central rrd file(s) held on the graphing server? 
>Then no need for NFS or copying.

Well I had to install newer packages from Backports, but this is now 
working. For belt and braces, I have the two routers updating a local 
file as well as the remote one - so if the graphing server or network 
are down for any length of time, I can copy the local files over and 
"restore" the otherwise missing data.

A couple of points :

1) When I use the --daemon option to rrdgraph, that flushes the cache 
but still accesses the local file doesn't it ?

2) Other than connecting to the socket, is there a way to trigger 
caches to be written ? I tried :
>echo "FLUSH <some filename>" >> /var/run/rrdcached.sock
but all I got was :
>-bash: /var/run/rrdcached.sock: No such device or address



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