For question 2, check your KPI Crontask - I think you will find that it is not active. This cron task is what runs the KPI periodically AND stores the data point.
"Update" will run the KPI('s) at that moment and provide you with the current value, but it will NOT create a data point for trending. Not sure where you are seeing 'reload', unless you mean web browser reload, which should force the browser to retrieve the webpage from the server, but that means pulling the KPI from the last run via the Cron Task, so this would not be the same as "Update".
Not sure about the difference in the environments if the data is the same.
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Christopher Winston
Projetech Inc.
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