Yesterday James Kilton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm monitoring DNS query statistics via an SNMP counter and > storing the data in RRDTool. Whenever I restart the BIND > service, the counters reset to 0. This caused RRDTool to think > that the counter incremented ~4 billion times, causing a huge > spike on the graph.
> Is there a way to have RRDTool take things like this into account > to eliminate such spikes? James, use DERIVE and a minimum value setting of 0. also, if your counter actually would wrap at 2^32-1, then you can use COUNTER and a realistic max setting to let rrdtool decide if it was a wrap or a reset ... cheers tobi > > Thanks, > James > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > -- > 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 > -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETZ J97, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker +41(0)1-632-5286 -- 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
