[mrtg] Re: Monitoring Web Site Value with MRTG [X-Post]

[Rab]

Hey

I actually just want to make a graph of a daily-posted value on a web site.
This figure (between 0 and 10) represents our usage over the 14 days
previous, relative to the userbase.  As such, there is no MB figure
associated with it that remains constant.

Currently - really for my own reference (as I have done for the past few
months) I manually log onto the site, note the number then enter it into a
spreadsheet which has a graph already setup.  As you can image this is quite
time consuming and is often forgot.

I have come across a script which will do this overnight, however it does
seem to have some problems with HTTPS sites:

    C:\MRTG-2.9.17\bin>perl mrtg test.cfg
     LWP lacks https support.
     WARNING: Could not get any data from external command
'optushome-netstats.pl'
     Maybe the external command did not even start. (No such file or
directory)

Thanks again for any more assistance anyone can offer, I am running MRTG
under NT4.

Rab
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-----Original Message-----
From: jay at west.net [mailto:jay at west.net]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2001 04:24
To: Sven
Cc: 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Subject: [mrtg] Re: mrtg & 95th %ile



On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Sven wrote:

> I have a 95th percentile script for mrtg but is there a way that i can
make
> the script do the percentile from the 10th of every month for 30 days (for
> example)??? is this possible? im not much of a scripter so i am not sure..
>
> Any help would be appreciated..

Most of the scripts I've seen keep a running total of the last 30 days.

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

If you want to take a snapshot on the tenth of each month for billing,
then just run a cron job to capture the data on that day.

If instead you want to clear all of the accumulated samples so that the
calculations begin fresh on the tenth, then you probably want to rotate
out your logged data to a different file on the tenth of each month.
This would cause the script to start with zero samples at the rotation
time.

Either of these sounds like a trivial exercise using cron.

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