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RRDUPDATE
Section: rrdtool (1)
Updated: 2008-03-15
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NAME
rrdupdate - Store a new set of values into the RRD
SYNOPSIS
rrdtool {update | updatev} filename
[--template|-t ds-name[:ds-name]...]
N|timestamp:value[:value...]
at-timestamp@value[:value...]
[timestamp:value[:value...] ...]
DESCRIPTION
The update function feeds new data values into an RRD. The data
is time aligned (interpolated) according to the properties of the
RRD to which the data is written.
- updatev
-
This alternate version of update takes the same arguments and
performs the same function. The v stands for verbose, which
describes the output returned. updatev returns a list of any and all
consolidated data points (CDPs) written to disk as a result of the
invocation of update. The values are indexed by timestamp (time_t),
RRA (consolidation function and PDPs per CDP), and data source (name).
Note that depending on the arguments of the current and previous call to
update, the list may have no entries or a large number of entries.
- filename
-
The name of the RRD you want to update.
- --template|-t ds-name[:ds-name]...
-
By default, the update function expects its data input in the order
the data sources are defined in the RRD, excluding any COMPUTE data
sources (i.e. if the third data source DST is COMPUTE, the third
input value will be mapped to the fourth data source in the RRD and
so on). This is not very error resistant, as you might be sending the
wrong data into an RRD.
The template switch allows you to specify which data sources you are
going to update and in which order. If the data sources specified in
the template are not available in the RRD file, the update process
will abort with an error message.
While it appears possible with the template switch to update data sources
asynchronously, RRDtool implicitly assigns non-COMPUTE data sources missing
from the template the *UNKNOWN* value.
Do not specify a value for a COMPUTE DST in the update
function. If this is done accidentally (and this can only be done
using the template switch), RRDtool will ignore the value specified
for the COMPUTE DST.
- N|timestamp:value[:value...]
-
The data used for updating the RRD was acquired at a certain
time. This time can either be defined in seconds since 1970-01-01 or
by using the letter 'N', in which case the update time is set to be
the current time. Negative time values are subtracted from the current
time. An AT_STYLE TIME SPECIFICATION (see the rrdfetch
documentation) may also be used by delimiting the end of the time
specification with the '@' character instead of a ':'. Getting the
timing right to the second is especially important when you are
working with data-sources of type COUNTER, DERIVE or
ABSOLUTE.
The remaining elements of the argument are DS updates. The order of
this list is the same as the order the data sources were defined in
the RRA. If there is no data for a certain data-source, the letter
U (e.g., N:0.1:U:1) can be specified.
The format of the value acquired from the data source is dependent on
the data source type chosen. Normally it will be numeric, but the data
acquisition modules may impose their very own parsing of this
parameter as long as the colon (:) remains the data source value
separator.
EXAMPLE
"rrdtool update demo1.rrd N:3.44:3.15:U:23"
Update the database file demo1.rrd with 3 known and one *UNKNOWN*
value. Use the current time as the update time.
"rrdtool update demo2.rrd 887457267:U 887457521:22 887457903:2.7"
Update the database file demo2.rrd which expects data from a single
data-source, three times. First with an *UNKNOWN* value then with two
regular readings. The update interval seems to be around 300 seconds.
AUTHOR
Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
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