on vertigo: you may want to append all moni files into one if they are spread in different directories. This one appends all .moni-files into /home/testdaq/FAT2/*.moni (edit the file to change output directory!): cd (directory with the .moni files) uu-appendmoni.sh Then you need to sort and make each line unique!. The following will take the appended .moni files and process them into a subdirecctory called unique (e.g. /home/testdaq/FAT1/unique/*moni): cd /home/testdaq/FAT2/ uu-moni-unique.sh Then you may put all the .moni files into the database /home/testdaq/SQL/moni2sql.py -b fat -u tester -p ~/monitoring/*moni (change the directory name if the multimon files are somewhere else!) Add the option: --interval=[t0:t1] if you want to specify a slice in time (in seconds since the EPOCH).