[[ Setting up a tangent on cumulative/non-cumulative counters ]] > I set the Unbound configuration to statistic-cumulative: yes
Truth be told, I never understood why anyone with their wits intact (not picking on you in particular...) would configure "statistic-cumulative: no". If you have a single monitoring client, that could work, for some value of "work". However, with such a configuration, as soon as you sample the stats with e.g. unbound-control, you ruin that interval's counters for your monitoring client by resetting them to zero "out of order" wrt. the monitoring client's periodic polling. With multiple monitoring clients any hopes of accuracy is thrown out the window. It always struck me as a bad idea to even offer the option to the operator; IMHO the counters should always be counters in the sense used by SNMP, i.e. never reset to zero on read. Regards, - Håvard
