[mrtg] Re: arithmetic in mrtg?

[paul beard]

Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:09:20PM -0700, paul beard wrote:
> 
>>I've been hunting around for some way to take values from mrtg's snmpgets and multiply them by a value (in my case, 4) and nothing I have found seems to work. 
>>
>>[/usr/local/etc/mrtg]# snmpget -Ov -cpaulbeard.org pink hrStorageUsed.6 
>>INTEGER: 5658
>>
>>Target[pink-scratch]:hrStorageUsed.6&hrStorageSize.6:paulbeard.org at pink works fine, but it's not what I want. I would like either to divide one by the other or to multiply both by 4 (for some reason the results are coming back at 1/4 the real size). 
>>
> 
> 
> Target[name]:<whitespace>OID1&OID2:string at host<whitespace>*<whitespace>4

Well, I thought I tried that. mrtg takes it without complaining, 
but the results are no different. Failing that, I'd be OK with 
dividing one by the other to get a percentage. I assume I just 
insert <whitespace>/<whitespace> between the OIDs.

>>For one thing, if I just try one value, I get an error. 
> 
> 
> Always two.  Not one, not three.  FAQ.

Of course, too late at night for me to be trying to think.


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