[mrtg] How can I get totals instead of rates ?

[Dan White]

'Scuse me, but is this a support mailing list for MRTG or for Routers2 ?

My main objection to trying Routers2 is that it requires a web server.
All I want is to be able to monitor my own bandwidth use.
I do not want to have to set up a web server just to do that.

On Dec 14, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Lyle Giese wrote:
> Dan
> Steve is trying to tell you that:
>
> 1) It can not be done with plain MRTG or it's would be very  
> difficult to
> implement.
> 2) It's easy to accomplish if you use the routers2 frontend instead.
>
> It's not that hard to implement routers2 as the frontend.
>
> Lyle
>
> Dan White wrote:
>> Thanks, but I am not using Routers2, just vanilla MRTG
>>
>> Any clues out there for this clueless one about how to get the number
>> I want ?
>>
>> On Dec 13, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Steve Shipway wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If you are using the Routers2 frontend, then enable 'total and 95th
>>> percentile mode' by placing 'percentile=yes' in the routers2.conf.
>>> This will then report totals over the graph time window for rate-
>>> based calculations.
>>>
>>> We use this feature to keep track of Internet usage at home on a
>>> per-teenager basis...
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch]
>>> On Behalf Of ygor at comcast.net [ygor at comcast.net]
>>> Sent: Sunday, 14 December 2008 6:38 a.m.
>>> To: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
>>> Subject: [mrtg] How can I get totals instead of rates ?
>>>
>>> I have set up MRTG to watch my Apple Airport.
>>>
>>> It works great, but I cannot get the numbers I want.  I want to get
>>> a total of packets sent/received on the interface between the
>>> Airport and the cable modem.
>>>
>>> I have searched for how to configure MRTG to get the numbers you
>>> want, but I cannot find the answer to this.
>>>
>>> Thanks.