[mrtg] Re: MRTG byte measurement and scale

[David Sawyer]

>Monitoring a typical 64k leased line, the bytes per second reads 0.0k
>to 9.6K sometimes goes up to 9.6K 

I've not been using MRTG for as long as you have, but on a 64k link the
MaxBytes value should be 8000.

bits / 8 = MaxBytes.

or you could use: -

Options[Router_1]: bits


>I'd like to make the bytes axis fixed at
>64K and find out why my scale is so inaccurate

You could use: -

Unscaled[Router_1]: DWMY

To not to scale your D[ay] W[eek] M[onth] Y[ear] graphs

HTH

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	MRussell at CRH.com [SMTP:MRussell at CRH.com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 15, 2001 11:18 AM
> To:	mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject:	[mrtg] MRTG byte measurement and scale
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using MRTG for a few months now and there's 2 things that I
> can't
> seem to get right with the throughput graphs on the cisco routers I
> monitor
> : 
> Monitoring a typical 64k leased line, the bytes per second reads 0.0k to
> 9.6K sometimes goes up to 9.6K ! I'd like to make the bytes axis fixed at
> 64K and find out why my scale is so inaccurate, even if I multiply by 10
> its showing 32k above what the line speed should be capable of. 
> 
> Target[10.20.2.250.2]: 2:PUBLIC at 10.20.2.250
> MaxBytes[10.20.2.250.2]: 64000
> Title[10.20.2.250.2]: HQ (): Serial0/0
> PageTop[10.20.2.250.2]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for Serial0/0
>  </H1>
>  <TABLE>
>    <TR><TD>System:</TD><TD>CRH_HQ </TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD><TD></TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD>Interface:</TD><TD>Serial0/0 (2)</TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD>IP:</TD><TD> ()</TD></TR>
>    <TR><TD>Max Speed:</TD>
>        <TD>64.0 kBytes/s (frame-relay)</TD></TR>
>   </TABLE>
> 
> Any suggestion appreciated.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
> 
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