[rrd-users] EPOCH timestamps

[Rick Jones]

On 07/02/2012 11:32 AM, Chris Mutchler wrote:
> Karl,
>
> That's what I thought too, but when I try to do just that I get the
> following error from RRDs::errror:
>
>   illegal attempt to update using time 1327662252 when last update time
> is 1341253778 (minimum one second step)
>
> I checked my timestamps that I'm generating from the log files, they are
> spaced 1 second apart and are in consecutive order. I think the issue
> may be with the fact that the script itself creates the RRD file at
> runtime with the second uptime timestamp noted above (1341253778) and
> then the actual stats entries are all in the past from that point.
>
> Is there a method for overriding that or faking the timestamp used when
> the RRD file is created?

You have to base the timestamp of create based on your actual timestamps 
rather than when you do the create itself.

rick jones

>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Karl Fischer <rrd-users at ficos.de
> <mailto:rrd-users at ficos.de>> wrote:
>
>     Am 02.07.2012 16:44, schrieb Chris Mutchler:
>      > How can I insert use an epoch timestamp that I gather from a
>      > log as the entry point for the data in the RRD file?
>      > Right now my stats string looks like this:
>      >
>      > my $stats = "N:$maxResp{$key}{'total'}:$maxResp{$key}{'wait'}";
>
>     simply replace the "N" with the timestamp. (N stands for "now")
>
>     eg.
>
>     my $time = 1341241950;
>     my $stats = "$time:$maxResp{$key}{'total'}:$maxResp{$key}{'wait'}";
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Mutchler
> chris at leibnizcreations.com <mailto:chris at leibnizcreations.com>
>
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