[mrtg] Re: Ping Probe Question

[Jason Humes]

Thanks very much....this helps very much.  

Jason D. Humes

Applied Computer Solutions
3020 St. Etienne Blvd.
Windsor, Ont.
Phone : (519) 944-4300
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Email : jhumes at acs.on.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter W. Osel [mailto:pwo at Infineon.COM] 
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:57 AM
To: Jason Humes
Cc: 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Subject: Re: [mrtg] Ping Probe Question


> *** Jason Humes <jhumes at acs.on.ca>
> *** [2003-03-07 07:53:31]:
> I've setup ping probe to monitor latency times and packet loss...most 
> of the graphs show zero loss (Fibre links) but a couple show a loss in 
> only percentage (from 7%-15%), not packets.  What does this percentage 
> mean?  I would think that it would the loss percentage would be a 
> multiple of 25, 4 pings sent, 1 lost would equal a loss of 25%, 2 lost 
> would equal a loss of 50%, etc.  Thanks.

Jason,
the default for mrtg-ping-probe is to send 10 pings, then you could see
values 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 % returned from
mrtg-ping-probe.  The question then is does mrtg average these values over a
period of time ...  Look into the mrtg log file, mine e.g. looks like this:

grep -v " 0 0 0 0" rubycon.loss.log | head

1047055815 0 0
1047044400 0 0 10 10
1047044100 10 10 10 10
1047043800 9 9 10 10
1047039900 0 0 10 10
1047039600 9 9 10 10
1047032700 0 0 10 10
1047032400 9 9 10 10
1047029400 0 0 10 10
1047029100 9 9 10 10


The format of the logfile is documented here:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/logfile.html

note that colume 2 and 3 are the average since the last measurement, hence
you get numbers we initially did not expect to see.

Include this option for your target:

WithPeak[rubycon.loss]: ymwd

to see the peak values in addition to the averaged values


Hope this helps

	--pwo


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