Currently I have a script that returns some small values (1-5) every ca. 20 minutes. Other than that it returns 0. Now on my graphs I would like to see exactly the returned values. Therefore:
1) In the Data Source Item -> Data Source Type I have choosen GAUGE.
2) Data source step is 15
3) I have the following RRAs defined:
Name Steps Rows Timespan**
Hourly (1 Minute Average) 1 500 14400
Daily (5 Minute Average) 1 600 86400
Weekly (30 Minute Average) 6 700 604800
Monthly (2 Hour Average) 24 775 2678400
Yearly (1 Day Average) 288 797 33053184
4) Each RRA has choosen AVERAGE and MAX as consolidation functions.
5) In the graph template, consolidation function is AVERAGE.
Thus, I expect graphs Hourly and Daily to show the exact values that the script has returned. The step is defined as 1, which means that there will be always one value used for calculating the consolidation data point. So even though, there are plenty '0' around, the CDP that contains the non-zero value won't be affected by them. Is this right?
Although, in my graph the values are skewed, seem to be averaged. For example, if the script returns 1, the value in the Hourly graph is around 0.15 and in the daily graph around 0.04.
Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Cheers!