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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Some comments on your configuration. The cause of your incorrect values is (1) and (5).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>If your samples come every 5min, set Interval:5 (the RRD updates every 5 min). You will need to delete old .rrd files when you change this. The Interval is how long between updates, in your case 5min.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>You do not need to set Factor[_]:1 , it does nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Do not use Step[]:300 , it does nothing (the default is 300s=5min) and it is an experimental directive anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Best practice is to put the Target[] line first for a given set of directives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>You set Options[_]:gauge,growright at the top but then override with Options[] for each specific target. I think you should instead use Options[^]:gauge,growright which is the prepend target, not the default.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>If you can get your script to output a running total of pages printed rather than a count over the last 5min, then you can remove the ‘gauge’ option and add ‘perminute’ instead to give a more accurate pages-per-minute calculation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>7.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Your script should output 4 lines; the third and fourth lines can be blank as they are only used in native-mode MRTG. The first two can be integers, decimals (if using RRDTool mode), or ‘U’ (for unknown).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>8.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>You might like to consider adding a ‘ / 5’ (spaces important) to the end of your Target[] lines. This will divide by 5 to get a per-minute rate which is better for graphing. This may not work too well if you are not using RRDTool as Native mode cannot handle decimals correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Which frontend are you using for MRTG/RRD? Alternatively, are you running MRTG in native mode (.log files)?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve Shipway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>ITS Unix Services Design Lead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>University of Auckland, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street, Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Phone: +64 (0)9 3737599 ext 86487<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>DDI: +64 (0)9 924 6487<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Mobile: +64 (0)21 753 189<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Email: <a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz"><span style='color:#595959'>s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:green'>Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Goralski<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:47 p.m.<br><b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] Graphing printer usage<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve recently been working on a project which focuses on gathering printer meter readings using snmp and placing this data into a mysql db. This all works fine. I do this every 5 minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve since installed MRTG and am wanting to graph the number of print jobs during this 5 minute period.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve created a PHP script which is set as the target in mrtg.cfg. The printer name can be passed to the script as a command line option which makes it particularly good in this sense. The script queries mysql and calculates the number of pages printed in the last 5 minutes. This data is then output in the form:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>5 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>(Just the two lines) The 5 represents say, 5 pages in total and the 0 represents 0 b/w pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I’ll post my mrtg.cfg file below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'># Global configuration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg/printers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>MaxBytes[_]: 20000<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Options[_]: gauge,growright<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Refresh: 300<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Interval: 60<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Factor[_]: 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'># E0_ColLaser<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>MaxBytes[E0_ColLaser]: 1500<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>AbsMax[E0_ColLaser]: 3000<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Options[E0_ColLaser]: growright, nopercent, noinfo, withzeroes, integer, perhour, unknaszero<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Step[E0_ColLaser]: 300<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Target[E0_ColLaser]: `php /var/www/mrtg/scripts/get_meters_from_db.php E0_ColLaser`<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Title[E0_ColLaser]: Meters - E0_ColLaser<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>PageTop[E0_ColLaser]: <h1>Meters - E0_ColLaser</h1><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>YLegend[E0_ColLaser]: Jobs in the past 5 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>ShortLegend[E0_ColLaser]: Pages / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>LegendI[E0_ColLaser]: Total Prints / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>LegendO[E0_ColLaser]: Colour Prints / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'># E2_ColLaser<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>MaxBytes[E2_ColLaser]: 1500<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>AbsMax[E2_ColLaser]: 3000<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Options[E2_ColLaser]: growright, nopercent, noinfo, withzeroes, integer, perhour, unknaszero<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Step[E2_ColLaser]: 300<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Target[E2_ColLaser]: `php /var/www/mrtg/scripts/get_meters_from_db.php E2_ColLaser`<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Title[E2_ColLaser]: Meters - E2_ColLaser<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>PageTop[E2_ColLaser]: <h1>Meters - E2_ColLaser</h1><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>YLegend[E2_ColLaser]: Jobs in the past 5 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>ShortLegend[E2_ColLaser]: Pages / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>LegendI[E2_ColLaser]: Total Prints / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>LegendO[E2_ColLaser]: Colour Prints / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>NB: My printers print at 25 pages per minute. I’ve used 25*60 to get a pages per hour figure and hopefully set the global interval at 60 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>The figures I’m getting are completely wrong. For example, I’ve printed at the most 2 or 3 pages and yet my graph shows the following values and the scale has a max value of 36?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00CC00'>Total Prints / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>35 Pages / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>0 Pages / 5 Mins <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>0 Pages / 5 Mins <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>Colour Prints / 5 Mins<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>11 Pages / 5 Mins <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>0 Pages / 5 Mins <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>0 Pages / 5 Mins <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Please, any assistance in understanding:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> What output I need to provide from my script so that MRTG can use it as input data <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Configure MRTG to simply graph the integer value for pages printed per 5 minute interval.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>