RE: [cacti-user] Supplying non-current values

If it were me I'd write a script that gets them from the sql database.
Your graphs will be delayed by how long it takes for these offline files
to be transferred across from whereever..

You can't make it live somehow?  Surely there must be a way you can get
cacti to do all the hard work for you? :) 

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> Seb...@Al...
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> Folks
> 
> I have a collection program that retrieves values from our 
> enterprise systems both locally and remote and stores them in 
> text files (due to network latency between the UK and China 
> running them from the UK is not an option).
> 
> These files are then shipped back to me on a daily basis.
> 
> I need to update Cacti with their values but for the time 
> they were run at in the remote office not the time I am loading them.
> 
> I have the data currently stored, along with the era value 
> for when they were generated, in a SQL database and want to 
> feed this into Cacti.
> 
> I have tried writing RRD databases directly and this does 
> work but how can I get Cacti to display them?
> 
> Either I can write directly to the rrd files and somehow 
> convince Cacti it did the writing or I could write a cacti 
> script that sucks data in from the SQL database and somehow 
> overrides the era value with the value from the database.
> 
> Any assistance gladly received.
> 
> Sebastian Rogers
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