I have a question regarding the max consolidation function for rra's. I've written a script to feed in software license usage statistics to rrdtool. It updates every five minutes, giving the current number (an integer value) of users for each software package. I've been getting odd results though. All of my RRA's are defined as a MAX consolidation function, yet when I look at the numbers stored some of them show fractions of users, for instance one of the values is 44.226667. This weekend I monitored the values being submitted to rrdtool to make sure it wasn't an error in my script, but all of the numbers from this weekend are whole numbers. So it appears that an average of the data is being taken somewhere. Is this supposed to be part of the MAX function? Is there an error in the way I'm creating or updating the rrdfiles? The create and update commands from my perl script are found below - each rrd contains information for a specific software feature's total usage and usage in remote labs.
`/usr/local/bin/rrdtool create $rrdfile --step 300 DS:total:GAUGE:1200:0:600 RRA:MAX:0.5:1:300 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:500 RRA:MAX:0.5:24:420 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:390 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:750 DS:remote:GAUGE:1200:0:600 RRA:MAX:0.5:1:300 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:500 RRA:MAX:0.5:24:420 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:390 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:750` `/usr/local/bin/rrdtool update $rrdfile -t total:remote N:$totalusage:$remoteusage` thanks shane -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
