On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Simon Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For GAUGE types, do I *need* RRAs of MIN MAX and AVERAGE? Would *just* > >LAST work best, and if not, why not? > > What are YOUR requirements ? RRD does not impose any particular > schema, you are free to define whatever meets your requirements.
Ok, makes sense, I was working under the incorrect assumption that certain things had to be a certain way, a la your mention of a schema. > >Since I want to report hourly, is there a need to have more than one > >update inserted into the rrd per hour, and if so, why? > > No, not if all you want is one sample per hour. Understood. And if I understand the purposes for MIN MAX and AVERAGE, they can be used additionally in a GAUGE context. I can understand their use in COUNTER types for net traffic etc. > So, if all you want is one sample, on the hour, then all you need is > one update per hour - and 'last' will probably do you (though with > one data point, min, max, average, and last are all the same). On the > other hand, if you want to be able to see what the data did in > between, then you might want more frequent updates and > min/max/average as required. So in regard to reporting, the -s interval means? -- aRDy Music and Rick Dicaire present: http://www.ardynet.com http://www.ardynet.com:9000/ardymusic.ogg.m3u _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
