[Xymon] Trends clarification

cleaver at terabithia.org cleaver at terabithia.org
Thu May 31 22:05:43 CEST 2012



> I have a few questions as to what, exactly, I'm seeing on the "Trends"
> graphs.
>
> Xymongen and Xymonnet runtime.... Is this the time, in (mili)seconds
> that it takes for those processes to run on that system?  In other
> words, if the Xymongen says 300m, does that mean it took 300 miliseconds
> to generate a webpage?  And, if xymonet says 2 s, does that mean it took
> 2 seconds to run all of the network tests on that host?

Yes, the runtime for both of these is what's graphed. The current value
should equal the "TIME TOTAL" line within the status message itself.

> Incoming messages - My graph is showing about "625 m"... what is "m"? My
> average is 0.6  What does that number mean?

I think the "m" is just the RRD-tagged, auto-generated SI prefix...

0.6 x = 600 milli-x


-jc





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