[mrtg] Re: Timing question again...

[Pekala David-p30198]

Option: gauge is what you are thinking of.  The manual states: "In the
absence of gauge...MRTG treats variable as a counter and calculates the
difference between the current and the previous value and divides that by
the elapsed time between the last two readings to get the value to be
plotted."  

When I'm trying to perform the test on something like packets / sec, the
rmon uses a counter, correct? If so I need the difference between the
counters.  MRTG will return the actual value if I use gauge, right?  If my
assumption is incorrect, won't gauge just give me the value @ the 5 minute
point?

Thanks,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Lafontaine [mailto:lafont02 at cn.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:34 PM
To: Pekala David-p30198
Cc: Mrtg Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [mrtg] Timing question again...


There should also be a switch to turn off the averaging..  I want real
numbers
for every poll.  As far as I know,  the number is averaged over 5 minutes.
The
gauge and absolute options don't quite do it.  If one poll return 128000 and
the
next poll returns 100,  I want to see that in the graph.

Don.

Pekala David-p30198 wrote:

> I have looked through pages and pages of the archives and I haven't found
> any answers as to how to change the daily / weekly / monthly / yearly to
> something else.  I found the messages about polling more often for a more
> accurate measurement.  However, I would like to change the daily (5
minute)
> to hourly (weekly to daily, etc).  I've looked through some of the
rateup.c
> code and it seems to test to make sure that the averaging occurs on 5
minute
> intervals.  If someone could tell me what I need to manipulate in order to
> achieve better resolution, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks!!!
> Dave
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