[rrd-users] Help with RRD.... in over my head

[Steve Shipway]

You are not entering enough values to get a complete cdp.

 

This is important:

--start 1325232008 --step 180 \

.

RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:20:10000

 

What this says is the STEP of the RRD is 180 seconds, or 3 minutes (often,
people will use 1min or 5min).

 

You are only STORING the data in a single RRA, which  has 10,000 cdp lines,
where each cdp (consolidated data point) is the AVERAGE of 20 dps (data
points).

 

So, you need to write 20 data points, at 3min intervals, before you get ONE
cdp stored.  Your xff is 0.5 which means that a cdp will remain unknown
until at least 50% (IE, 10) points are written.

 

This means you will get NaN output from your fetch until you have done at
least 30 mins of data!

 

Your test data had only 2 data points, and they are only 21 seconds apart,
so the second would be ignored anyway.  Try entering in at least 10 dps,
with time intervals of 180, and you should start seeing a single cdp on your
fetch.

 

I suspect you are not setting the step or RRA parameters appropriately.
Maybe try an additional RRA with AVERAGE:0.5:1:10000 (so each data point is
stored),  and/or decrease the step?

 

Steve

 

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From: v g [mailto:infiniteseeker at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, 20 January 2012 6:56 a.m.
To: Steve Shipway
Cc: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Help with RRD.... in over my head

 

Hi

 

Thanks for your reply.  Still having an issue but managed to isolate it
further.  It looks like it enters the first update correctly and then fails
on the subsequent ones.  Obviously, I am not doing something correct but I
cant figure out what.  

 

 

 

Here is what I did as per your suggestion:

 

Creating RRD file:

 

rdtool create birken-boiler.rrd \

--start 1325232008 --step 180 \

DS:boiler_out_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \

DS:boiler_in_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:vihara_in_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:vihara_out_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U \

DS:outbldg_in_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:outbldg_out_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:cistern_top:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:cistern_bottom:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:boiler_flow_gpm:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:vihara_flow_gpm:GAUGE:600:0:U \

DS:outbldg_flow:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:boiler_btu_per_hr:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:vihara_btu_per_hr:GAUGE:600:0:U  \

DS:outbldg_btu_per_hr:GAUGE:600:0:U \

RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:20:10000

 

Entering in Values:

 

rrdtool updatev birken-boiler.rrd
1325404770:102.7:137.1:140.0:122.6:126.8:122.2:258.7:138.4:0.0:5.0:0.0:0:434
82:0

rrdtool updatev birken-boiler.rrd
1325404791:102.6:137.2:140.2:121.9:126.7:122.1:260.2:145.2:0.0:5.0:0.0:0:455
86:0

 

Output:

 

return_value = 0

[1325235600]RRA[AVERAGE][20]DS[boiler_out_flow] = NaN

[1325235600]RRA[AVERAGE][20]DS[boiler_in_flow] = NaN

[1325235600]RRA[AVERAGE][20]DS[vihara_in_flow] = NaN

 

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