Difference between "% Total Time" and "% Known Time"

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Ayotunde,

% known time is the amount of time that Nagios definitely knows the 
state of the hosts/services. For example if your Nagios system is down 
for an hour in a 24-hour period (or has no data from result checks to 
ascertain the state of devices) the % total time will be 100% (24 hours) 
but the % known time will be 95.8% (23 hours.)

That's how I understand it anyway.

Andy

Ayotunde Itayemi wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Please what’s the difference between "% Total Time" and "% Known Time" 
> on the NAGIOS interface (availability etc)? The two values usually 
> appear together e.g., as "Total Time % (Known Time %)”
>
> If reporting to “management” for example, which value should be reported?
>
> The staff in my monitoring unit (and myself :-) are a little confused 
> as to which of the two values represent availability for example.
>
> Thanks.
>
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