rrdtool 1.2 not creating preview graphs

[paulbeard206]

I installed rrdtool 1.2 today and I find I can't use it: it will export static graphs just fine and it displays detail graphs for a given data source (5 min/2 hour/week/year) but no previews.

Is this something anyone else has seen?

This is in SuSE linux 8/9, cacti .8.6f with cactid and rrdtool 1.2.11.

[TheWitness]

Enable DEBUG, goto a preview graphs. Then immediately goto the log. You will find an entry "CACTI2RRD". Take that command and paste it into a shell and see what error it returns (please redirect output to a file).

Then paste that error message to this forum. Don't forget to turn off DEBUG when complete.

TheWitness

[paulbeard206]

Well, never mind, as Emily Litella would say. It works, though slowly.

Good enough.

Thanks.

[alain76]

I've got exactly the same problem using rrdtool 1.2. Here is the rrdtool command to generate the previews :

/usr/local/rrdtool/bin/rrdtool graph - --imgformat=PNG --start=1124915153 --end=1125001553 --title="Cisco 6513 - CPU Usage" --rigid --base=1000 --height=100 --width=300 --alt-autoscale-max --lower-limit=0 --no-legend COMMENT:"From 2005/08/24 22:25:53 To 2005/08/25 22:25:53\c" COMMENT:" \n" --vertical-label="percent" DEF:a="/var/www/cacti.crihan.fr/rra/cisco_6513_5min_cpu_275.rrd":5min_cpu:AVERAGE AREA:a#FF0000:""

and here is the error output of this command :

ERROR: Garbage ':25:53 To 2005/08/25 22:25:53\c' after command:
COMMENT:From 2005/08/24 22:25:53 To 2005/08/25 22:25:53\c

It looks like rrdtool doesn't like the ':' character into the comment line

[rony]

Settings->General

RRDTool Version

That is all I will say.

[alain76]

Oups oups, find the answer to the problem looking at the source code. I did not configure the right version of rrdtool in my settings. Putting it back to version 1.2 solves the problem.

Sorry ...