[rrd-users] [rrd-developers] RRDTOOL xport issue whereas RRDTOOL fetch is fine

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Swami,


Yesterday swami wrote:

> Hi All,
>          I am finding this issue of rrd xport not returning rows whereas the rrd fetch is returning rows with the same parameters.
> Would be great if any of you could help me or have faced this issue.I am using rrdtool version 1.3.6.
>
> Below is the snapshot of the commands executed and their result .
>
> RRDTOOL FETCH: returns one row as shown below
>
> [root at dev006 ~]# /usr/local/third-party/rrd/bin/rrdtool fetch /var/stats/rrd_data/service_class_data/service_class_TESTSC04.rrd AVERAGE -r 3 -s 1262886000 -e 1262886180
>             AccelTrafficBytesIn PThruTrafficBytesIn     GoodPutBytesOut      GoodPutBytesIn     WanPThruBytesIn            BytesOut
>
> 1262886600: 4.3554497354e+02 0.0000000000e+00 1.6151587302e+02 5.8164285714e+02 0.0000000000e+00 5.6100264550e+03
>
> RRDTOOL XPORT  : things to observe
> 1)  in the result , step is 600 eventhough step is set to 3 in the command
> 2) start and end time in the result are not the same as in the command
> 3) no rows are returned.
>
> [root at dev006 ~]# /usr/local/third-party/rrd/bin/rrdtool xport --step 3 -s 1262886000 -e 1262886180 DEF:aval=/var/stats/rrd_data/service_class_data/service_class_TESTSC04.rrd:AccelTrafficBytesIn:AVERAGE DEF:bval=/var/stats/rrd_data/service_class_data/service_class_TESTSC04.rrd:BytesOut:AVERAGE DEF:cval=/var/stats/rrd_data/service_class_data/service_class_TESTSC04.rrd:GoodPutBytesIn:AVERAGE DEF:dval=/var/stats/rrd_data/service_class_data/service_class_TESTSC04.rrd:GoodPutBytesOut:AVERAGE CDEF:a=aval,UN,0,aval,IF,8,* CDEF:b=bval,UN,0,bval,IF,8,* CDEF:c=cval,UN,0,cval,IF,8,* CDEF:d=dval,UN,0,dval,IF,8,* CDEF:dr1=d,100,*,a,/ CDEF:dr=100,dr1,- CDEF:ci=a,d,/ CDEF:civ=ci,UN,1,ci,IF CDEF:cival=civ,1,MAX XPORT:dr XPORT:cival XPORT:a XPORT:b XPORT:c XPORT:d
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> <xport>
>   <meta>
>     <start>1262886600</start>
>     <step>600</step>
>     <end>1262886000</end>
>     <rows>0</rows>
>     <columns>6</columns>
>     <legend>
>       <entry></entry>
>       <entry></entry>
>       <entry></entry>
>       <entry></entry>
>       <entry></entry>
>       <entry></entry>
>     </legend>
>   </meta>
>   <data>
>   </data>
> </xport>

there were a number of issues fixed in xport recently. please try
with the latest 1.3.x or 1.4.x version of rrdtool

cheers
tobi

-- 
Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900