[mrtg] Re: newby question

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

>>> "Carlos Alperin" <carlos at www.senecacom.net> 7/21/2004 6:15:41 PM
>>>
>Hi everbody,
<snip>
>
>Now, I have this problem: I need to track signal level on 8 links that
we 
>have in our backbone, so I can get those values through snmp but they
are 
>Negative Integer numbers.
>
>Then, of course I cannot use MRTG. Did somebody has an example of an
RRDTool 
>application just I don't have clear on my mind how to start collecting
the 
>information?

You could just multiply the resulting target line with -1.  DBs are
usually in 
negative values, so as long as the positive db indication doesn't
confuse 
the engineer responsible for this, you should be fine.

Paul

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