[mrtg] Re: Total Bandwidth Usage

Chairman of the Bored list-mrtg-talk at L7.org
Tue Sep 14 23:27:19 MEST 1999


At 02:14 PM 9/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am new to MRTG (and first time user of this group) and so, please
>bear with my questions.  I am monitoring a Cisco router connected to a
>T1 line.
>Here are my questions.
>
>1.  How do you make MRTG display total bandwidth usage (in %) of T1
>line?
>   Currently it displays In/Out statistics of the router every 5 mins.
>   Adding these two values may not be accurate as it may exceed 100%

a t1 line is also bidirectional, you can use 100% outgoing and 50%
incoming without issue, so adding them together will give you a 
meaningless number as well..

>2.  The Y - scale on the graphs do not display full bandwidth capacity
>    of T1 line (i.e. 193 KB/s).  The graphs end at 176KB/s.  How would 
>    I make the graphs display the Full capacity of the line?

tell it not to scale (see the docs)

>3.  I would also like to monitor another Cisco router connected a
>   Fractional T1 Line.  How can I combine statistics from these two
>    router to display total T1 usage?

Target[backbone-one]: 2:public at a.b.c.1 + 2:public at a.b.c.2

-dd

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