Re: One little Newbie Question

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> my boss wants me to raise up a network monitoring system so i just started
> with rrdtool a few days ago.
> i read a lot of tutorials and documentation but there are a lot of
> questions left. here is one of them.
>
> 1. i use the perl module RRDs to access and  fetch the database. i created
> my test DB with:
>
>   RRDs::create($DB, "--step=60",
>     "DS:cpu-load:GAUGE:66:U:U",
>     "RRA:MAX:0.5:1:60",
>     "RRA:MAX:0.5:60:24",
>     "RRA:MAX:0.5:1440:7",
>   ) or die $RRDs::error;
>
> so everybody can see that rdd's stepsize is 60 sec. right?
>
> Now i tried to fetch some data with:
>
>     my ($start, $step, $names, $data) =
>      RRDs::fetch($DB, "MAX");
>
> printing $step says: stepsize would be 3600
>
> Why?
>
> thanks a lot in advance
> Chris
>