We have a customized poller that provides a count of the number of connected VPN sessions on an ASA box. We want the results to be displayed on our home page, but interestingly enough, the graph results do not match what the customized poller gathers. I think we narrowed this down to being related to having the customized poller assigned to more than one node. It almost looks as if SolarWinds is averaging the results for all of the nodes the poller is assigned to.
I am not sure how NPM decides to average if this is indeed what it is doing, but if there is a way to alter that setting to just add them together, we would be providing more useful information.
As a work around, I created a transform result which multiplies the poller results by the number of devices being polled. This makes it so when the average is calculated, it is actually converting it to a count rather than average.
I'd like a less clumsy resolution.
