[mrtg] Re: mrtg for home users: more precision than '5minuteaverage'?

[Constantine A. Murenin]

On 30/03/06, PAUL WILLIAMSON <pwilliamson at mandtbank.com> wrote:
> >>> "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc at gmail.com> 03/30/06 2:54 PM >>>
> > I don't want to do that. I trust my chroot'ed httpd, and I trust
> > that mrtg should not stop at providing 5-minute accuracy in
> > regular mode as opposed to RRDTool mode.
>
> > I don't want to install any third-party CGIs, I'm quite happy
> > with what mrtg offers, except that 'Interval: 1' doesn't
> > work. :(
>
> What is MRTG?  It's as much a 3rd party app as routers2 or
> cacti or cricket or any other polling solution.  RRDTool is
> just a backend.

MRTG is a reliable and trusted third party app. From the first look at
routers2 I cannot say the same.


> Have you even *tried* using RRDTool as the backend and
> MRTG with interval set to 1?  MRTG is not going to do 1
> minute intervals, any time soon, if ever.

Can mrtg still plot my graphs and generate html in this fashion using
most of my existing configuration?


> Hint:  It does what you are asking for, sort of.

I love this hint! I'll add it to my list of excuses. :)

Constantine.

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