[mrtg] Re: Editing MRTG's .log file

[Luke Dudney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:lsheldon at creighton.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:11 AM
> To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject: [mrtg] Editing MRTG's .log file
> 
> 
> I _know_ I have seen this one the list, but I've poked 
> diligently at the
> web sites and the list archives and I can't find it.
> 
> Situation: a very long time ago a monitored quantity went berserk and
> ever since we have not seen any meaningful stuff on the year graph.
> 
> What do I need to do to find the offending entries (three or 
> four consecutive
> enteries, I think) and reset their values to the neighborhood average?
> 
> I thought I had it figured out and cleaned up one of the three related
> graphs (same data goes into three different Targets), but it must have
> been blind, stupid luck, because the same technique didn't work on the
> othere two.
> 
> And yes--I deleted the appropriate year.gif after each attempt.
> --


There is a perl script 'fix_bad_mrtg_logs.pl' floating around that will
remove spikes to an expected maximum that you supply on the command line.

Have a look around the web for it, if you can't find it, I can email it to
you.

//Luke

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