[Orca-users] plot accuracy

[Blair Zajac]

"Jon A. Tankersley" wrote:
> 
> I thought we had to update the .pm files to use MAX instead of the
> AVERAGE settings for
> the rrdtool creation.

Jon,

Using MAX instead of AVERAGE was for one user's choice in consolidation
function.  To get no consolidation requires something similar to the code
I sent.

> I've got the hooks in to allow the config file to allow that to be selectable, but I
> can't get one of the perl modules to 'see' this setting, so I have a working copy that
> will have both MAX and AVERAGE (and MIN if that were desired)  This will double the RRD
> size, basically.

Great.  If you want, download the latest Orca source code using
Subversion, update your copy and send in the output of 'svn diff'
for us to review.

> 
> I've also been looking at the 'date' information.....  the Week XX is pretty useless to
> my users....   I have to build a lookup table for them.  So, I've looked at doing
> something like MM/DD instead.  This would be in rrdtool, that I'm making as a compile
> option.  I haven't had a chance to test it, so I don't know what things will look like.
> Also, putting MMM YY for the year, so more of the date information is in the graph
> instead of the 'timestamp' at the bottom.

This would also be good.

Best,
Blair

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