[rrd-users] help with update

[Simon Hobson]

Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

>I'm having trouble updating my database, this is my first try at 
>getting rrdtool to work... ;-)
>
>So I created a database like this:
>
>rrdtool create /var/www/rrd/test.rrd
>             DS:input:ABSOLUTE:600:U:U
>             DS:output:ABSOLUTE:600:U:U
>             RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600
>             RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700
>             RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775
>             RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797
>             RRA:MAX:0.5:1:600
>             RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700
>             RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775
>             RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797
>
>And I'm getting counters every 5 minutes (resetting each time) to 
>feed into the rrd.
>
>I have a script that gets values for input and output and then I 
>call update with those values like this:
>
>rrdtool update /var/www/rrd/test.rrd N:31127529:10551799
>
>But when I do a dump, the rrd just has all NaN, no data in it.

How long did you do updates for ? You won't see any values in the 
database until you've completed a consolidated period AND you have at 
least (in this case) 50% of that period covered by data. If you are 
entering data every 5 minutes, it may take 2 or 3 updates before data 
appears.

Also, is it a typo/copy&paste error, because I don't see a step 
declaration in that rrd tool create command ?
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