[Xymon] wrong values in RRD

[Henrik Størner]

On 22-04-2013 21:04, P3 wrote:
> I am using xymon 4.3.10.
>
> My xymon client sends 2 values to the xymon server,
>
>    disk_free = 10404175872
>    disk_free_limit = 1000000000
>
> The values displayed on the dashboard are correct.   But xymon server
> stores a negative value for disk_free and zero for disk_free_limit.  How
> can I make xymon stores the proper value to RRD?
>
>      <ds>
>          <name> diskfree </name>
>          <type> DERIVE </type>

DERIVE is used only for counters like "bytes sent" - i.e. counters that 
continuously go up.

Items such as "disk free" can go up and down; you must use the GAUGE 
type in RRD for those.


Regards,
Henrik