[mrtg] Re: Absolute Values - Never Averaged

[Stieers, Ken]

Jason, 

If you mean that you don't want MRTG to average the values to generate the
weekly, monthly, yearly, graphs, you're out of luck.  Absolute and gauge
only affect how the incoming data is processed.  WithPeaks will let you see
the peaks for each of the averaged time periods.  

By default MRTG gets the data, computes the delta and divides by the number
of seconds.
Absolute gets the data, doesn't compute a delta, and divides it by the
number of seconds.  
Gauge gets the data doesn't compute a delta, and doesn't divide it at all.


If MRTG did have an option to not average to generate the historical graphs,
how would you pick which poll to keep? 

HTH, 

Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Leidigh [mailto:jleidigh at uol.com.ar]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 3:06 PM
> To: MRTG
> Subject: [mrtg] Absolute Values - Never Averaged
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Ken... but the manual which I have read does not 
> mention what I'm talking about or it is not clear.
> As I understand the Absolute option it DOES average the 
> readings once it goes into the compiling phase which reduces 
> every 5 min into an average 15min. read and so forth.  THIS 
> is the thing I'm trying to avoid.  I want to perserve 
> original readings like a counter.  Suppose that my 5 min 
> readings come like this
> 
> 5 , 10, 15
> 
> When compiled the value would become 15 as this was the 
> actual value "in the past" not the average value.  In this 
> way I could graph a truly absolute progressive curve which 
> might show actual growth over time for say the number or 
> registries in a database.
> 
> If anyone know let me know.  If this is "Absolute" than 
> thanks for the explanation.
> 
> Jason Leidigh
> 
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