On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 11:41 +1100, Craig Small wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:08:06PM -0500, Joe Wells wrote: > > Yup, it's a counter. I'm re-doing it as gauge to see what happens. Looks > > better already, though. > > > > I thought that this would be a counter, and the JFFNMS docs list it as a > > counter. > ICMP messages should be a counter. You don't care that there has been > 1234,567 icmp messages to your computer, but you might find it > interesting that 50 messages/second is the average rate for the last 5 > minutes.
Ah, OK. I really don't care about ICMP at all, I'm just trying to figure out how to add custom interfaces and thought that I'd follow the example in the docs. > > So when should a counter be used and when should it be a gauge? > A counter is for a rate, widgets per second > A gauge is a level, I have 6 widgets. This seems backwards to me, but no big deal. I thought that a counter would be used for straight-ahead reporting of the number of widgets returned. In my world fingers (and sometimes, toes) are counters. A more judicious review of the existing interfaces would have shown the difference, but I just didn't understand the process well enough. Thank you for your help! -Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ jffnms-users mailing list jffnms-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jffnms-users
