Thanks for the quick reply but that did not fix it... Sorry I think it was me describing my situation badly... the commands I am using to update the rrd file are...
rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:0 rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:0 rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:4 rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:4 rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:8 rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:8 rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:12 rrdtool update test_1_errors.rrd N:12 So (to the best of my understanding) it should be COUNTER or DERIVE and as it can overflow (it jumps back to 0 if the monitoring process restarts) i chose COUNTER. If I set it to a GAUGE then I just get the following... <!-- 2005-10-26 12:27:00 BST --> <row><v> 0.0000000000e+00 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:28:00 BST --> <row><v> 0.0000000000e+00 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:29:00 BST --> <row><v> 2.8125421954e+00 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:30:00 BST --> <row><v> 3.9999999934e+00 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:31:00 BST --> <row><v> 6.8065682097e+00 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:32:00 BST --> <row><v> 8.0000000092e+00 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:33:00 BST --> <row><v> 1.0804404122e+01 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:34:00 BST --> <row><v> 1.1999999984e+01 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:35:00 BST --> <row><v> 1.4801654656e+01 </v></row> <!-- 2005-10-26 12:36:00 BST --> <row><v> 1.6000000027e+01 </v></row> Which would just draw a line continuously increasing, would it not? Again thanks for your help Mike On 26/10/05, Serge Maandag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rrdtool create /root/test/test_1_errors.rrd --step 60 \ > > DS:errors:COUNTER:60:0:U \ > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:60 > > > > <!-- 2005-10-26 11:09:00 BST --> <row><v> 0.0000000000e+00 </v></row> > > <!-- 2005-10-26 11:10:00 BST --> <row><v> 6.6666666667e-02 </v></row> > > > > Now 6.6666666667e-02 is 4 / 60 so it seems to be taking an > > average of the value passed in... I assume its due to the > > AVERAGE in the following line... "RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:3000" but > > I can't work out what I should change it to. > > No, it's because you use COUNTER i.s.o. GAUGE. > > Serge. > > ------------- > Op de inhoud van dit e-mailbericht en de daaraan gehechte bijlagen is de > inhoud van de volgende disclaimer van toepassing: > http://www.zeelandnet.nl/disclaimer.php > > ------------- > For the content of this e-mail message and its attachment(s) the following > disclaimer applies: http://www.zeelandnet.nl/disclaimer.php > > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
