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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Try 'U' for 'Unknown'. However MRTG is quite clever, and anything that doesnt look like a number will be treated as an 'unknown'.<br>
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Steve<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><strong>Steve Shipway</strong></div>
<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">University of Auckland ITS</div>
<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><em>UNIX Systems Design Lead</em></div>
<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</a></div>
<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF49588"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Engrie, Marc [marc.engrie@sanomamedia.be]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 10 April 2012 1:57 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] what to pass when not data?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hello,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What values can be passed to MRTG when ther was no data available?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Eg:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Target[test]: `test.pl host`</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">In normal circumstances test.pl would pass 2 values separated by \n.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">But wat should the script pass along if it could not get data (from the host)?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">NA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">NA</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Or</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">UNK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">UNK</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Or … ?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:teal">Marc Engrie</span></b><span style="">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">ICT Infrastructure Manager</span><span style="">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Tel: +32 2 776</span><b><u><span style="">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">GSM: +32 476 52 35 45</span><span style="">
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