[mrtg] Re: Integer vs. Bytes

[Tim Sheets]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex van den Bogaerdt [mailto:alex at ergens.op.het.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:29 PM
> To: 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
> Subject: [mrtg] Re: Integer vs. Bytes
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:38:30AM -0700, Chu, Quang wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > If we are monitoring for ifInErrors & ifOutErrors, should
> we use the
> > integer option instead of bytes in our cfg files?  Thanks
> 
> "integer instead of bytes" makes no sense.
> 
> You probably want to investigate the "perhour" option.

That brings up an interesting question (in my mind anyway).

What affect does using (or not using) 'Options: bits' have on things
such as ifInErrors?

If the numbers collected are presented in Bytes by default, and using
the option 'bits' scales and presents them in (bytes * 8), wouldn't the
same thing be true for other OID's?

In other words, should one use 'Options: bits' when collecting errors
and such?

I use 'Options: bits' as a standard, so never really thought about it.

Thoughts?????  Am I missing something here?

Tim

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