[rrd-users] Re: Counter reset to zero initialy and over hours, no rrd updates

[Thomas Erskine]

At 13:05 2002-08-23 +0200, Gerhard Ecaroh Froehlich wrote:

>Hello,
>
>i am monitoring Oracle DB. Unfortunately counters will be initialy "zero" when
>creating the database and gets reset every night to "zero" by restarting the
>databases too. For hours there will be no user request (04:00 - 09:00), 
>therefor
>after reset to "zero" the snmp value will be "zero" till the first user 
>request
>comes in the morning.

If the counter in question is writable, you could dump out the correct 
value just before shutting down, and re-load it with put, after you bring 
it back up.  [Assuming that you're not paranoid (like the rest of us) and 
have removed all the writable community strings.]

[snip]

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