[mrtg] Re: Preserving Raw Data

[Mats Karlsson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel J McDonald" <dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com>
To: "mrtg" <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 14:08
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Preserving Raw Data


> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 06:49, Mats Karlsson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Max Clark" <max.clark at media.net>
> > > I want to preserve the raw data set for 60 days to use for usage based
> > > billing.
> > >
> > > Is is possible?
>
> > Max,
> > Yes its possible. As far I know you can do it in two different ways.
> >
> > 1. Store the mrtg data in an SQL database:
> > http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-colo/0112/msg02318.html
> >
> > 2. Copy the day log to another location/name at 23:58 each day before
the
> > compress cyclus starts. I think there are an script ready for this in
the
> > contrib directory for mrtg.
>
> 3.  Use RRDTOOL as the backend and set the RRDRowCount[_] to 17280. That
> will give you 60 days of 5-minute data points (60 days * 24 hours *60
> minutes / 5 minute intervals = 17280 rows required).
> -- 
> Daniel J McDonald, CCIE 2495, CNX

Or you can use a rrd addon like cacti (http://raxnet.net/).
- PHP frontend
- rrd engine
- MySQL storage

/Mats

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