[mrtg] Re: How does it get those funky numbers?

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

First item is incorrect.  MRTG just pulls the number.  The first number plotted is 
the DELTA of poll 1 and 2.  To get averages, it does it like this:

It gets 6 polls in 30 minutes, so it adds all the entries up and divides by 6.  
Voila!  There's your 30 minute average.  

How it does the monthly (2 hour) averages or the yearly (1 day) averages 
is really averages of averages.  Since the 5 minute polls don't exist 
for longer than 400 polling intervals, that's how it gets those averages.  
In your example, 1500 would be the first entry in the database.

Don't forget normalization.  More than likely, you will not poll the device at exactly the same interval, so MRTG makes allowances for that.  

Paul

>>> "Matt Katona" <mkatona at comwavz.com> 07/22/02 08:40AM >>>

Ok, management is asking about how MRTG pulls it's numbers. This is how I understand it (i'm looking for correction/clarification)

MRTG reads the counter for an OID and records it (ie: 1000) and plots it on the graph
MRTG sleeps for five minutes then reads the counter again,  (ie: 2500). Now MRTG subtracts 1000 from 2500 and plots 1500 on the graph. 
MRTG repeats step two every 5 minutes.

But how does the "average" get calculated? 

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