Hi Craig, I believe it will be dangerous to threshold only when all values of a collection step are received successfully. Some values -as already described by you- might never get collected. If this prevents other values from beeing thresholded it's quite difficult to know when our configured thresholds will work and when not. You need deep insight in grouping together the values etc. instead of simply configuring a threshold and believing that it will work if the corresponding value gets collected.
How are these values grouped together - all values from the same data collection package for a node, or all values from the same mib tree, or those who will end in the same rrd file? - Michael >>> Craig Miskell <craig.misk...@opus.co.nz> 26.04.2011 23:10 >>> _____________________________________________________________________ Entschlüsselungs-Informationen / 2011-04-26 23:11:34 Signatur: Nicht ueerpruefbar (Unterzeichner unbekannt) _____________________________________________________________________ ------START-PGP------ Hi, Ref http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4244, I have found something interesting: Thresholding is attempted even if the data collection cycle failed. Any missing values will not be thresholded, except for counter values, which it'll try to do anyway based on the last value, hence the bug report. My question: Can anyone see a reason why moving thresholding to only occur if the collection succeeded (see CollectableService.doCollection())? My concern is that we might currently have situations where the data collection partly succeeds (e.g. some OIDs are returned but not others). Currently thresholding will work for the values are have managed to be collected; changing this as suggested means it'll never threshold in the presence of any error on that collection cycle (per node/collector). Before I spend a few days in the bowels of the collectors, does anyone know if I'm worried about something that can even happen (partial collection result sets)? Ta, -- Craig Miskell Senior Systems Administrator Opus International Consultants Phone: +64 4 471 7209 73 is the Chuck Norris of Numbers -Leonard, on The Big Bang Theory ------END-PGP------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Please read the OpenNMS Mailing List FAQ: http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Mailing_List_FAQ opennms-devel mailing list To *unsubscribe* or change your subscription options, see the bottom of this page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opennms-devel Ihr starker Gesundheitspartner – die BARMER GEK. Auch 2011 gilt: kein Zusatzbeitrag! www.barmer-gek.de Diese Nachricht der BARMER GEK kann vertrauliche firmeninterne Informationen enthalten. Sofern Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empfänger sind, bitten wir Sie, den Absender zu informieren und die Nachricht sowie deren Anhänge zu löschen. Unzulässige Veröffentlichung, Verwendung, Verbreitung, Weiterleitung und das Kopieren dieser Mail und ihrer verknüpften Anhänge sind nicht gestattet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Please read the OpenNMS Mailing List FAQ: http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Mailing_List_FAQ opennms-devel mailing list To *unsubscribe* or change your subscription options, see the bottom of this page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opennms-devel