[Xymon] Another weirdness - RRD info has gaps

[Betsy Schwartz]

accidentally snipped off the tail interval there, but it's still matching:

/home/xymon/client/bin/bb 10.100.5.42 'status+12h
myhost.example.com.RTM  green  Wed Aug  1 17:09:20 2012
 Total : 377910
 Success : 372738
 Temp_Errors : 1083
 Other_Errors : 4085
 Total_Errors : 5168
 Percent_Failure : 1.37%
<SNIP otherstuff>

'/home/xymon/client/bin/bb 10.100.5.42 'status+12h
myhost.example.com.rtmstats green  Wed Aug  1 17:09:20 2012
 Total : 377910
 Success : 372738
 TempErrors : 1083
 OtherErrors : 4085
 TotalErrors : 5168
 PercentFailure : 1.37%



On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
> These two graphs were generated from the same script, sending the same
> data to two different tests :
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsys99/7705982914/in/photostream
>
> You can see that the first test has chunks missing at regular
> intervals. These two graphs were made from the same data, sent from
> the same perl script, to two different tests, RTM and rtmstats. I did
> this originally back when I was having trouble with RRD choking on the
> extra information and wanted to separate the stats, but I've kept it
> because the one graph is so spotty.  On the client side,my perl script
> for the test is logging that it is sending the data correctly, and I
> believe it's always displaying correctly on the test page
>
>  On the xymon server, I see the rrd file for RTM is missing some
> entries that are populated on the rtmstats, for example:
>
> RTM:
>          <!-- 2012-08-01 17:05:00 EDT / 1343855100 -->
> <row><v>3.5954352000e+05</v><v>3.5456424000e+05</v><v>1.0610000000e+03</v><v>3.9142800000e+03</v><v>4.9752800000e+03</v><v>1.3876000000e+00</v></row>
>          <!-- 2012-08-01 17:10:00 EDT / 1343855400 -->
> <row><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v></row>
> rtmstats:
>             <!-- 2012-08-01 17:05:00 EDT / 1343855100 -->
> <row><v>3.5954352000e+05</v><v>3.5456424000e+05</v><v>1.0610000000e+03</v><v>3.9142800000e+03</v><v>4.9752800000e+03</v><v>1.3876000000e+00</v></row>
>             <!-- 2012-08-01 17:10:00 EDT / 1343855400 -->
> <row><v>3.8017446000e+05</v><v>3.7497760000e+05</v><v>1.0860800000e+03</v><v>4.1067800000e+03</v><v>5.1928600000e+03</v><v>1.3678000000e+00</v></row>
>
> What could be causing this discrepancy?
>
>
> Looking at that interval on the client side log:
> /home/xymon/client/bin/bb 10.100.5.42 'status+12h
> myhost.example.com.RTM  green  Wed Aug  1 17:04:15 2012
>  Total : 357039
>  Success : 352086
>  Temp_Errors : 1058
>  Other_Errors : 3891
>  Total_Errors : 4949
>  Percent_Failure : 1.39%
> <SNIP lots more stuff>
>
> '/home/xymon/client/bin/bb 10.100.5.42 'status+12h
> myhost.example.com.rtmstats green  Wed Aug  1 17:04:15 2012
>  Total : 357039
>  Success : 352086
>  TempErrors : 1058
>  OtherErrors : 3891
>  TotalErrors : 4949
>  PercentFailure : 1.39%