Yup. That's exactly what I'm going to do....I just have to modify my script to sort and group my rrd entries by time. Thanks for everyone's help with this!
-----Original Message----- From: Ingimar Robertsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:15 AM To: Dulac, Daniel (Dan) Subject: Re: [rrd-users] insert time-stamped data from a flat file? Hi there Dan. Maybe you have to even out all your timestamps out with the step you're using (most likely 300 seconds) and then group them together? On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:40:05AM -0500, Dulac, Daniel (Dan) wrote: > I am a relatively new user to RRD. I'm currently writing a perl script to > create and update an RRD with the datasource being a flat-file. However, I > seem to be running into a problem inserting data into a RRD....Here is my > situation: > > > > I have a completely different tool collecting data at various time intervals > (mostly 300 seconds) and writing this data to a flat-file. Each row of this > flat file contains the time the data was collected, the metric (variable) I > am collecting, and the value (all semi-colon delimited). At the end of each > day, a new flat-file is automatically created and titled with the new date > stamp. At the end of each day, I want to populate the RRD with this new > data-reading from this flat-file (obviously, my script does the proper > conversion for the RRDs::update syntax)....When running my script and > attempting to insert data into the RRD, I get the following error > (repeatedly with different times): > > > > ERROR: illegal attempt to update using time 1039622171 when last update time > is 1039622235 (minimum > > one second step) > > > > Can anyone give me insight to what this error actually means? Is it > possible to use RRD with what I'm trying to accomplish? I want to utilize > some of the cool RRD front-ends to graph my data on a daily basis. Thanks > in advance for any help you can provide. > > > > ___________________ > > Dan > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users > WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi Bestu kveðjur, Ingimar -- Ingimar Róbertsson, kerfisstjóri EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skýrr hf TEL: +354-5695100 Ármuli 2, 108 Reykjavik FAX: +354-5695128 http://www.skyrr.is/legal/disclaimer.txt -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
