perfsonar development work

[Nicolas Simar <>]

Jeff W. Boote wrote:

> P.S.
>
> I don't really understand why anyone would be putting anything other 
> than octets(bytes) in the RRD files. The SNMP MIB variable is in octets 
> - why mess with it? Can someone tell me what other units are being used 
> for utilization, and what they are using to collect the data so that it 
> ends up in other units? It would help me to understand the scale of this 
> problem - how many possible units are in typical use for this metric?

I also believe that it is a theoretical problem, at least for router 
MIBs, as most of them are expressed in Octet.
As we are going to run an MDM service, I want to nail down the unit used 
so that we can prevent discrepancies between the service installer and 
the existing visualisation.

I am also suggesting to have a 30 min slot during the next Cambridge 
meeting to nail down the list of metrics for the services we have (so to 
potentially prevent discrepancies).

Cheers,
--
Nicolas
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