[rrd-users] GAUGE negative values

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi R,

GAUGE hasno problem with negative values if you do not add a
minimum of 0 when setting up the rrd file ... if you did, you can
change things later using rrdtool tune.

cheers
tobi

Today R Dicaire wrote:

> If I understand the documentation correctly, type GAUGE cannot have
> negative values input into the rrd database?
>
> If such is the case do I need to perform some math on the actual value
> to create a positive integer forst before inputting to rrd update?
>
> Thanks
>

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