Agree... This 'raw' data from dtlog should be sufficient... dick <>
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Trocki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 02:22 To: Dick de Waal Cc: David Amiel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Availability Rate On Tue, 28 May 2002, Dick de Waal wrote: > RRDMON uses RRDTOOL and MON to graph it's data in a nice picture... > > what do you main by 'availability rate'... i think he wants a percentage of time a service is identified as unavailable. this can can be calculated from the dtlog itself (see the man page for dtlogging, and see the comment in the file itself for the format), but he needs to decide on what interval is most significant to average across, and hopefully he'll take into account the sample rate.