Hi all, My custom RRD's are sometimes not updated, when the server receives two or more messages in a short interval from different clients. Thanks for any help Tony anton.burkhalter at gmx.net Here is the full story... Operating system: Tru64 OSF1 V5.1B 2650 alpha hobbitserver 4.0.4 Output from larrd.sh in debug mode written to larrd-test.log, ==> no missing entries here; there is every 5 min. a new entry like the following: 2005-06-20-18:26:34 p1 : foo.example.com p2 : envmon p3 : /usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/rrd_msg_660975 # content of file $p3: data foo,example,com.envmon System Temperature:31 Treshold:48 # values extracted: DTEMP: 31 DTRESH: 48 ---------------------------------------------------- The following output is created by larrd.sh: echo "DS:temp:GAUGE:600:0:100" echo "envmon.temp.rrd" echo "$DTEMP" echo "DS:temp:GAUGE:600:0:100" echo "envmon.tresh.rrd" echo "$DTRESH" ---------------------------------------------------- Here is the relevant extract of the lard module running in debug mode, # grep foo larrd-data.log | awk '{printf "%s %s %s %s %s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5}' 2005-06-27 18:32:59 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 18:37:59 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 18:37:59 RRD update param 2005-06-27 18:37:59 RRD update param 2005-06-27 18:43:01 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 18:48:04 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 18:48:04 RRD update param 2005-06-27 18:48:04 RRD update param 2005-06-27 18:53:07 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 18:58:09 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:03:12 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:08:14 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:08:14 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:08:14 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:13:18 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:18:17 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:23:18 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:28:21 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:33:25 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:33:26 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:33:26 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:38:28 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:38:28 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:38:28 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:43:32 hobbitd_larrd: Got message 2005-06-27 19:43:32 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:43:32 RRD update param 2005-06-27 19:48:32 hobbitd_larrd: Got message The problem is that the RRD file is sometimes not updated, "Got message" but no RRD update in the log: 18:53:00 : Got message 3148 @@data#3148|1119891180.345343|172.22.1.10||bar.example.com|envmon 18:53:07 : Got message 3149 @@data#3149|1119891187.408847|172.22.1.11||foo.example.com|envmon 18:53:48 : Got message 3150 @@data#3150|1119891228.963696|172.22.1.12||dum.example.com|envmon 18:53:49 : RRD update param 00: 'rrdupdate' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 01: '/usr/local/hobbit/data/rrd/dum.example.com/envmon.temp.rrd' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 02: '-t' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 03: 'temp' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 04: '1119891228:41' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 00: 'rrdupdate' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 01: '/usr/local/hobbit/data/rrd/dum.example.com/envmon.tresh.rrd' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 02: '-t' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 03: 'temp' 18:53:49 : RRD update param 04: '1119891228:50' --------------------------------- This is the definition in hobbitgraph.cfg [envmon] FNPATTERN envmon.(.*).rrd TITLE System Temperature YAXIS Temperature(C) DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:temp:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -l 0 GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n ------------------------------------- This is the part in hobbitlaunch.cfg: [larrddata] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel \ --channel=data \ --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/larrd-data.log \ hobbitd_larrd \ --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd \ --extra-script=/usr/local/hobbit/server/ext/larrd.sh \ --extra-tests=fdmns,envmon \ --debug --------------------------------------