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Mark_Hensler
2 years ago
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DataSource recording zeroes for non-zero raw responses

I wrote a DataSource that is exhibiting a weird problem. Most of the data points are recording zeroes, but when I click "Poll Now", I see non-zero values in the Raw Response. The DataSource uses mult...
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I have not tried gauge. It doesn’t make sense to me to use gauge to count bytes across an interface. The API does not indicate that there is a time frame for a polling period (i.e. bytes in last 60 seconds).

vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/612caf56-5bb1-4a0b-8d2b-12ccd8981904/37be75ba-aa56-42f4-99c3-f6c989ddbe57/api_includes/types_IpSecVpnTunnelTrafficStatistics.html

The datasource is of type “script”. There too many VPN tunnels and “batchscript” times out.