perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Szymon Trocha <>]

Hi Chris,

Chris Welti pisze:
> Hi Peter,
>
>
>  wrote:
> > Hello *,
> >
> > i want to look at the utilisation of a certain interface in psUI.
> > I have rrd data for year. What is the correct way to zoom automatically into 
> > the past ?
>
> I've discovered this strange behaviour recently as well. Previous versions of 
> psUI used to display data into the backwards direction from the program start 
> time which was much more intuitive imho. Currently (V0.15a) it seems that you 
> need to enter the start time that you'd like plus the duration from that 
> point in time.

This is a known issue and RFE is already posted and we hope to change 
that behaviour:
https://bugzilla.perfsonar.net/show_bug.cgi?id=852
(note that Bugzilla is currently frozen due to migration to GN3 
infrastructure)

> > If nothing has been configured in advance, only data from the program start   
> >     time into the forward direction is displayed, one can't look backwards in 
> > time. Is that the way it should be ?
>
> Personally, I don't think that's the way it should be. Going backwards from 
> the current time was way better.
>
> > If i configure an earlier start time in the "From" line, the start time 
> > changes but it doesn't scale the timeline correct and most of the time doesn't give any 
> > data for the 1 month, 3 month or 1 year interval. What is going wrong here ?
>
> For me if I enter an earlier start time, scaling seems to work when I click 
> on the time buttons on the lower right side (from point in time).
> Even better would be if there were buttons to go right and left in the graph 
> if you wanted to see the previous or next inverval of the same size (scale).

Nice idea.

Thank you for your comments.

Regards,
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Szymon Trocha

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