Michael Schuster wrote:
> ... the ability to print deltas and absolute numbers at the same time?
>
> Details:
> as it is spec'd out now, ilbadm show-statistics has several options:
>
> Usage: ilbadm show-statistics [-thaAd] [-r rule] [-s serverID] [interval
> [count]]
> -t ... print a timestamp with every header
> -d ... print delta over whole interval (default: changes per
> second)
> -A ... print only absolute numbers (since module initialisation)
The phrase "since module..." is not quite correct. A rule's
stats collection is started when it is created. A server's
stats collection is started when a server is added to a rule.
> -a ... print absolute numbers as well delta
> if both -a and -A are given, last takes precedence
For netstat(1M), the default is to print out the accumulated
numbers. And if a time interval is specified, the first set
is the accumulated numbers. The subsequent sets are delta
from the previous set. Should we follow this instead of
having -A and -a? Then -d is used to specify the interval.
If not provided, just print out the accumulated numbers once.
> -r ... print numbers for a given rule
> -s ... print numbers for a given server
> -h ... print this message
>
>
> what I'm wondering is whether there's any use for "-a"; either delta or
> absolute numbers give quite long lines of output, so printing both
> either looks messy (very!), and/or produces *even* longer lines of
> output and/or needs more than one line. All of this is rather ungainly,
> and I question the utility and necessity for such an option.
>
> (here's some example output as it stands, for the brave:
> processed not processed dropped
> packets bytes icmp_echo icmp_2big pkt bytes icmp
> icmp2_big nomem_bytes -pkt
> 42/42 2443/2443 0/0 0/0 0/0
> 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
> 0/42 0/2443 0/0 0/0 0/0
> 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
> 0/42 0/2443 0/0 0/0 0/0
> 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0)
>
> If nobody objects, I'll retire this option tomorrow morning.
>
> Michael
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