[mrtg] Fwd: Target did not eval into defined data problem

[Daniel McDonald]

On 6/18/12 7:49 AM, "Attila Rajmund Nohl" <attila.r.nohl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> This is an absolute measure. It's memory usage of a process and is
> only updated every 15 minutes.

That's not the meaning of absolute, it is most likely a gauge.

Absolute resets the counter to zero after polling.  It is displayed as a
rate after dividing by 300 (or whatever the polling interval is).  There is
no counter rollover taken into account.

Counter assumes a continuously monotonically increasing value with
roll-overs.  It is expressed as a rate.

Gauge is a snapshot of data that should be displayed as is and not
considered as a rate.

-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281


> 
> 2012/6/9 Steve Shipway <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>:
>> Possibly you should be using the 'gauge' option?  Is this variable a counter,
>> or an absolute measure?
>> 
>> Also the rate of change may be < 1 per sec.  If this is the case, native mode
>> MRTG cannot cope with it, you need RRDTool as your backend.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> Steve Shipway
>> University of Auckland ITS
>> UNIX Systems Design Lead
>> s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz
>> Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> 
>> Now I don't get errors, but the data is not updated either. This is
>> how the first few lines of the <target>.log file look like:
>> 
>> 1339164901 340201472 340201472
>> 1339164901 0 0 0 0
>> 1339164611 0 0 0 0
>> 1339164600 0 0 0 0
>> 1339164300 0 0 0 0
>> 
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