Re: PMIE : Using raw value for a counter

[Chandana De Silva <chandana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Frank,
On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 09:10 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> chandana wrote:
>
> > [...]  I need to evaluate the raw value in PMIE of a metric which
> > has been defined as a Counter. [...]
>
> (I'm curious - why?  Comparing it to other counters?)
This is specific to  my requirement. That particular metric, if > 0 is a very good indication that the host in question is acting as a slave database. I need to determine that to drive a number of other pmie rules

> > Since this value does not change very often, pmie sees the value as
> > 0.  Is there any way I can force pmie to use the raw value ?
>
> (This could be a place for a $instant=value($counter) _expression_ in
> pmie _expression_ language, like we were talking about for
> derived-metrics.)
Ageed
> - FChE