[mrtg] Re: options help

[Pete Templin]

According to the documentation, "In the absence of 'gauge' or 'absolute' options, MRTG treats variables as a [sic] counters and calculates the difference between the current and the previous value and divides that by the elapsed time between the last two readings to get the value to be plotted."  Therefore, the gauge option WILL cause MRTG to divide by the elapsed time, which is not what I want.

Or am I simply mistaken?

Pete Templin
IP Network Engineer
Tex-Link Communications
pete.templin at texlink.com
(210) 892-4183

-----Original Message-----
From: Brander, Eric [mailto:Eric.Brander at ACS-INC.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 2:11 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: options help

The gauge option is exactly what you need.

Eric Brander
ACS
Texas CHIP Account
Sr. Communications Engineer - Information Systems Department
512.336.3331
Eric dot Brander at acs-inc dot com


-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Templin [mailto:pete.templin at texlink.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:46 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] options help


What are the correct options for a counter that doesn't reset after you
check it (i.e. MRTG will need to subtract the previous reading) AND should
be displayed as the number of events that occurred (i.e. MRTG should not
divide by the number of seconds that have occurred since the last poll).
Unless I'm sorely mistaken, neither gauge nor absolute applies here.

I'm trying to graph the number of InErrors and OutErrors on an interface,
and be able to display the number of errors, not the error rate per second.

Thanks,

Pete Templin
IP Network Engineer
Tex-Link Communications
pete.templin at texlink.com
(210) 892-4183

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