Perfomance graphs

[benhank]

guys how do I make nagios show me the actual minimum and maximum values in the performance graphs?

[slansing]

What device are you graphing, and metric within that device? I.E. What check's data are you graphing off of? Or are you speaking in the general terms of a graph only showing you the maximum and minimum value it has reached?

[benhank]

I am speaking in general. But default nagios averages the values you see on a given performance graph. Instead of nagios showing me the average "peaks", I want the "peaks" to be the actual maximum and minimum values.
For example:
If I am looking at the bandwidth of a site used over a 6 month period. And Nagios is showing me the average usage over those 6 months the number can be significantly different that what it would be if Nagios showed me the actual maximum and minimum values.

or put another way If I asked you how much gas you used in the last month, you could say on average I used 30 gallons.
But I want to know exactly how much you used total. your answer would be different.

[scottwilkerson]

For the MIN & MAX, it will be the actual MIN & MAX over the compressed period, it only really compresses the AVERAGES

What I mean by this, is MIN wil be the lowest low over the compressed period, and MAX will be the highest high over the compressed period

[benhank]

scott, scott, scott, scott, scott....
I must admid I am a little disappointed in you. After all the times you have answered my bonehead questions, I would have assumed that we had established by now that when it comes to nagios, that I am an idiot ...
It's cool, were still friends but next time I expect you not to talk to me as if I have a clue...
Speaking of which, Man, I got no clue where I would enter them values... help a brutha out. =D

[scottwilkerson]

By default Nagios XI keeps records of the performance data in all 3, MIN, MAX & AVERAGE, no changes should be necessary.

The settings for these are in /usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/rra.cfg

However changes to this will only take affect for NEW RRD files.

[benhank]

thanks man, btw I was worried that you would not get my joke, I was saying that I have no clue where to make those changes. Thanks for the the help fellas! you can lock it