Re: How are the 95th values generated for Cacti? Are they wrong?

Florian Roscher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.cacti.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:51:07 +0000
James Bensley <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to run rrdtool manually to generate a 95th percentile value
> from an rrd file via the CLI, but I can't get the same results.

> [..]

> In the screenshot below I am using the Cacti web interface to view a graph
> based on the same rrd file, for the same date and time period, but it has a
> different 95th percentile value. It says 95th percentile = 9.6Mbps (this

Cacti is able to calculate different types of percentile.
Well, it might be better to say: It is able to calculate the
percentile based on different values.

The type is selected within your graph definition/template. 
See i.e. http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/html/variables.html#GRAPH_VARIABLES,
search for heading 'Nth Percentile'.


And as a side note: 'all_max_peak' is calculated wrong as far as I understand
this. See my mail <[email protected]>, i.e. here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20121025163016.1c8062d3%40marvin.ham.ws.mcs.de&forum_name=cacti-user


Regards
Florian


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