Re: [Devmon] Worng Load output from Devmon to Xymon

[weiser <ho...@we...>]

Hi,

sorry that I first write now, I have had some other things which have taking 
all my time...

<CUT>
> Well, the devmon collector passes the definition in the DS line of the
> message
> straight through to the code that calls librrd functions to create the RRD
> file, so your RRD file should have been created to use the COUNTER data
> source
> type for ifInOctets and ifOutOctets. You can verify which data source type
> your rrd file is using for these data sets using 'rrdtool info
>  /path/to/rrd'.

It is COUNTER there is used.

> 
> I notice that most of the rrd collectors that ship with Xymon use the
>  DERIVE data type by default. Networking devices with SNMP counters should
>  be able to use COUNTER safely, and using COUNTER should be more accurate
>  (as it will get the data between the highest value seen and the counter
>  wrap value, which DERIVE would lose).
> 
> You may want to experiment by changing the COUNTER in your message file to
> DERIVE, and then remove / rename the existing RRD file, and see if this
> prevents it in future. However, as far as I can tell, this should not make
>  a difference (see below), unless the bug is in rrdtool itself.

I have changed in my template to DERIVE from COUNTER. And removed the rrd 
files.
And now it work, so it looks like it is a bug in rrdtool...

<CUT>

> The only place I can think of where this could occur is in rrdtool itself.
> 
> What version of rrdtool are you running? You could manually create an rrd
> file
> (with 'rrdcreate') and update it with values going over the counter wrap,
>  and see if you get the same behaviour.

The version I use is: 1.2.19.


Regards,

Kim