[mrtg] Re: Making scripts 64-bit counters

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

>
> tony bourke wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a way to make a script treated like a 64-bit counter?
> >
> > Target[tofu_64bit] `/usr/local/bin/64bit.pl`:::::2
> >
> > does not seem to do the trick.  The counters are 64 bit, and I don't want
> > it treated like a 32 bit counter.
>
> Loose the :::::2
>
> > Or does MRTG just not do wrap calculations if the number is above 2^32?
>
> When I tried using a script of my own, the numbers I generated ended
> up in the log file.  This means they are read properly.

Note, that mrtg does not store numbers over 2gb in its logfiles ...
Unless someone sends a correct patch to use long longs (for rateup)
or switches to rrdtool. So while counters of 64bit are fine, rates
of over 32bit are NOT ...

cheers
tobi
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