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RRDUPDATE(1)			    rrdtool			  RRDUPDATE(1)



NAME
       rrdupdate - Store a new set of values into the RRD

SYNOPSIS
       rrdtool {update	updatev} filename [--template-t ds-name[:ds-
       name]...]  Ntimestamp: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 argu
	       ments 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 COM
	       PUTE, 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 func
	       tion. If this is done accidentally (and this can only be done
	       using the template switch), RRDtool will ignore the value spec
	       ified for the COMPUTE DST.

       Ntimestamp: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 SPECIFICA
	       TION (see the rrdfetch documentation) may also be used by
	       delimiting the end of the time specification with the @ char
	       acter 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 depen
	       dent 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 



1.2.15				  2006-07-14			  RRDUPDATE(1)




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