You are most likely recording a Counter. Basically what is happening is
that RRD is recording the difference between the last recorded counter
value and the current value and deviding it by the number of seconds
that have elapsed. So if you have a 5 minute step between recording
values (300 seconds) and the counter increments 1 for 1 login attempt,
it records 1/300 in the RRD database, giving you a fraction of a login
attempt each second.
You can either change the value recorded in the database or change the
value displayed on the graph. To change the value in the database,
simply add and RPN of "300,*" to convert to attempts per 5 minute period
(or 60 for per minute, or 3600 for per hour). While this is easier, you
are skewing the values that will be recorded if your device does not
record every 5 minutes. You can write a custom RRD graph command to
modify what is displayed. I have a counter that records pages per hour
(but actually does it on the hour, instead of recording every five
minutes.) I use the following Custom RRD command for a counter called
pageCount_pagePerHour.
CDEF:totalPageCount=pageCount_pagePerHour,3600,*
AREA:totalPageCount#00cc00:Page Per Hour
If you had a data source named loginAttempts_loginAttempts, you might use:
CDEF:totalAttempts=loginAttempts_loginAttempts,60,*
AREA:totalAttempts#00cc00:Login Attempts per Minute
klinstifen wrote:
I am attempting to graph connection attempts to my server. I have the correct OID (snmpget works and Zenoss is getting data) but the graphs look a little off. If I pull up good 'ole perfmon (my server is W2k3) I see the connections spike at about 5 a second, but for the most part hover around 1-2/sec.
Now, my graphs show a different thing. I wanted to attach a picture but can't seem to
find the "attach file button". They show:
cur: 14.5m
avg: 80.05m
max: 331.86m
m as in milli? I think the math being applied to the gathered values is a tad
off. Perhaps my step interval is too short? Anyone have an idea why the count
would be so low?
The datapoint is configured as DERIVE with a minimum value of 0. No special
create commands or custom graph definitions. [/img]
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