[rrd-users] Dealing with spikes due to reachability

[Tobias Oetiker]

Chris,

RRDtool has no idea about devices in any way ... the question is
what your script does when it is not able to acquire the data. What
does it feed to rrdtool ?

rrdtool has several saveguards to deal with such situations

* min/max values for each datasource (rates for counter DS)
* minimal required heart beat to catch long gaps in updating
* after a UNKNOWN value has been logged, the internal counters get
  invalidated, and you need two updates to get a valid counter
  again.

cheers
tobi

Today Chris Griffin wrote:

> Hi Tobi,
>  Thanks much for the reply.  I am gathering the counters via SNMP and
> sticking them in the RRD.  It could certainly be my script is doing
> something strange or the counters on the device are bad.  Here is an
> example:
>
> 1177477260: 7.8335465325e+06 3.4685346764e+06
> 1177477320: 7.0441856350e+06 4.4907708048e+06
> 1177477380: 5.0908686855e+06 2.6347848034e+06
> 1177477440: nan nan
> 1177477500: nan nan
> 1177477560: nan nan
> 1177477620: nan nan
> 1177477680: 2.8324705690e+08 1.6997104436e+08
> 1177477740: 2.9551147168e+07 1.8751196979e+07
>

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