Re: [torrus-users] Shorter cycles?
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From: Marc H. <mh+...@zu...> - 2005-03-25 12:59:33
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:25:02AM -0800, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: > --- Marc Haber <mh+...@zu...> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:48:54AM -0800, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: > > > Marc, check out http://torrus.org/snmpdiscovery.pod.html > > > > > > On the host level, you can redefine "collector-period". Then all > > > polling for that host would be affected. > > > Also "host-copy-params" could be useful if you want to redefine > > > the RRD RRA creation. > > > > that would be snmp-defs.xml, param name="rrd-create-rra", right? > > > > I guess that the first setting (RRA:AVERAGE:0:1:4032) means that it > > relies on a 300-seconds-pulse, and running rrfw with a > > collector-period of 15 instead of 300 (all rrd files deleted after > > doin that change) only delivers one pixel per 5 minutes. The rrd file > > shows 15 seconds increments though. So, it looks like the pulse for > > the web interface is controlled seperately. > > The RRD files are created with the step value taken from the collector > period. Probably you forgot to recompile your datasources tree, and RRD > files were created with the step set to 300? I don't think so, a dump of the rrdfile shows <step> 15 </step> <!-- Seconds --> > > What is the role of the one-minute-cycle and five-minute-cycle in > > xmlconfig/generic/collector-periods.xml? > > You can apply those templates, instead of tweaking individual parameters. > But be careful, because the snmp-defaults template is applied at the host > level. If you apply "one-minute-period" at the host level, it should be > processed after snmp-defaults. Ah, I see. Thanks. I am afraid that the intentions behind some of the templates and the complex interaction between templates, parameters and values are somewhat underdocumented. I find them exceptionally hard to grasp, and consider the learning curve _very_ steep. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 |