[rrd-users] Pulling data out of rrds

[Simon Hobson]

Munroe Sollog <mus3 at Lehigh.EDU> wrote:

> While possible, I tried assuming that.  I take the output of 'rrdtool lastupdate <rrd>' and
> multiply the inbps and outbps by 8.  I get:
> 
> 		inbps		outbps
> before 8*	8919317560 	35604848630
> 
> after 8*	71354540480 	284838789040
> 
> so just rudimentary math reveals my 1Gbit link is pushing: ~71.34Gbps and ~28.4Gbps

I think that returns the last actual value supplied - which will be the counter value from the last update. You need to use "fetch" to get the last processed values.