What type of data point did you define? Only gauge records the actual value. Counter and Derive will record the difference from the last value over time ((vnow-vlast)/t secs). Absolute expects that each time the value is read, it is reset to 0, so it records (vnow/t secs).
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 17:48 +0000, agthurber wrote: > I am hoping someone can explain this for me. Why are there multiple cycle > time variables? > > I looked on the zenoss docs on the website and couldn't even find a > description for zCommandCycleTime. Then i looked in the 2.0 pdf docs that i > downloaded from sourceforge and it gave me the following info. > > zCommandCycleTime > The cycle time yo use when executing zcommnads for this device or organizer. > > Data Source Cycle Time > The Cycle time indicates how often to re-collect data from this data source. > > My main questions are how do these two cycle times interact? Does it effect > the data collected if one is higher than the other? > > I am having a problem where my data seems to be taking an average over time > rather than recording the actual number values. I had all the settings at > their defaults, my data source cycle time was set to 300 sec (= 5 minutes), > and the zCommandCycleTime was set to 60 in the zproperties. > > I am expecting whole integers 0,1,2,3 as a result from my command and I can > see in the zcommand logs that the value is coming in as expected, but in my > graphs i am getting decimal values that means somehow the data is not being > stored as it should. > > Should these cycle times equal each other to assure that only one sample is > collected for each cycle and therefore it could not be averaged out? > > ------------------------ > A. G. Thurber > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=8825#8825 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users -- James D. Roman IT Network Administration Terranet Inc.On contract to: Science Systems and Applications, Inc. _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
