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https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general Cheers, Bernard On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Robinson Tiemuqinke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > One more question: > > Can I specify the min/max threshhold values for a metric through some fields > in metric descrpitor? If so, how to do it? > > Thanks. > > > > > --- On Wed, 12/10/08, Robinson Tiemuqinke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Robinson Tiemuqinke <[email protected]> >> Subject: Help in need when writing gangnlia python metrics modules >> To: [email protected], [email protected] >> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 7:25 PM >> Hi, Tobias and all, >> >> I'm writing a ganglia python metrics module to >> monitor haproxy software's performance. I'm >> following the steps at >> http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_gmond_python_modules. >> the modules does send data back to gmetad but I still >> don't understand the following parameters for >> metrics' descriptors, could you or someone shed a light >> into this: >> >> The following paragraph is excerpt from the html page: >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> name: name of the metric >> call_back: function to call when collecting metric data >> time_max: maximum time in seconds between metric collection >> calls >> value_type: string | uint | float | double >> units: unit of your metric >> slope: zero | positive | negative | both >> format: format of your metric >> description: description of your metric (which is visible >> in web frontend if you hover over host metric graph) >> group: group of your metric (metrics in the web frontend >> hostview is grouped by this) >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> My questions are: >> >> 1, how can I specify RRD file's heartbeat rate here? >> >> 2, when the metric has a large int (between 2**32 and >> 2**64) value, which 'value_type' should I specify? >> Is the 'uint' -- probably means unsigned int -- good >> enough? >> >> 2.1, If I specify 'uint' for 'value_type', >> and the metrics has a negative value '-1' to specify >> the problematic situation where data is not retrievable, >> then what will happen? >> >> 3, what do the 'slope' values mean? And how to >> specify it for a particular metric? >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> --Tiemuqinke > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rrd-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users > _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
