[mrtg] Re: External program problem (fwd)

[Aaron Dewell]

Exactly right.  I did those things, and it works great now.

Thank you!

Aaron

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
> The value returned by your script is assumed to be bytes.  This is the
> value that is compared with MaxBytes and which is stored in the log file.
> 
> If you prefer to see bits instead of bytes, you can use the bits option
> to influence the graphing part of MRTG.  It does not change the logging.
> 
> Set MaxBytes to 960 and remove the bits option (if any).  It should work
> fine from that moment on.  You've lost historic data.
> 
> Be warned for future projects:
> When you see a flat line (all those 70s) this means that there is something
> wrong.  Either you missed several updates and MRTG copied the last known
> value onto all others, or the input is above MaxBytes (or AbsMax, if any)
> and it copied the last known good value.
> 
> If you would choose the UnknAsZero option, you would also see a flat line
> but on the zero level.  In your case, I think this would be the better
> choice as zero modems in use would alarm you probably.
> 
> regards,


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