[mrtg] Re: One Minute Polling

[alex at ergens.op.Het.Net]

dmaxwell at sturgeon.irngtx.tel.gte.com wrote:
> 
> For a short period of a day or two, while some application testing is
> occurring, I need to poll 3 interfaces once every minute.  The polling seems
> to be OK, but the daily graph says that it is showing a 5 minute average.

That is because the polling is not related to the storing of the data.
The data is normalized to fit into 5-minute slots in the logfile.

> I am not prepared to do a conversion to rrdtool in a hurry and after this
> test I will go back to 15 or 5 min polling.

If you're not willing to put some time in it ...

> Is there some param that I need to pass? I tried Interval and perminute, but
> Interval does not seem to like values less than 5 and perminute deals with
> like kb/min instead of kb/sec.

Perminute has nothing to do with the polling interval.  It is related to
the default ``persecond'' (which doesn't exist) in "kb per second".

Straight from the docs:

 "Step

     Change the default step from 5 * 60 seconds to something else (I have
     not tested this well ...)

     Example:

   Step[ezwf]: 60
 "

Pay attention to the "not tested" part ...  I have no experience whatsoever
with this option ...   perhaps it will accomplish what you are trying to do.

regards,
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