[mrtg] Re: Returned values being rolling over, clipped or something

[Neil Calvert]

I wonder if anyone has taken on the task of coding MRTG to support >
32bit numbers? I for one am still slogging through RRDTOOL and have a
happy MRTG installation - it would be -very- nice to have support for
large counters in MRTG. Granted RRDTOOL is the natural successor, but am
I the only person who could use a 'maintenance release' of MRTG...?

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex van den Bogaerdt <alex at slot.hollandcasino.nl>
To: rod at chello.com <rod at chello.com>
Cc: MRTG users <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 6:22 PM
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Returned values being rolling over, clipped or
something


>> A few weeks ago I had a problem when the values to be graphed by MRTG
seemed
>> to be lower than should be expected. The interfaces being graphed
having
>> this problem all regularly see in the order of at least 100Mb going
through
>> them. When the traffic over the interface gets up to around 100Mb
MRTG
>> starts to graph it as being much lower, as if suddenly there were a
lot of
>> dropped packets. I checked the interface and the number of packets
through
>> it did not compare to that shown by MRTG. When I change the frequency
of the
>> crontab for running MRTG from every 5 minutes to every minute the
graphing
>> becomes normal. I don't much like the idea of having to send snmp
gets to
>> the interfaces that frequently if I can otherwise help it. Is this
due to a
>> limitation of SNMP, of MRTG or something that I have overlooked?
>> Rod Oliver
>>
>
>Yup, you've overlooked the mail list archive. Please look back for
>numerous discussions on this.
>
>In short: switch to RRDtool so you won't get caught by 32 bit counters.
>
>Alex
>
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