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

[Dan White]

Some details would help.
Why is my request impossible ?

My "attitude" is 'cause I do not want a huge, complicated solution  
and the response I get is that Routers2 is (apparently) the ONLY  
solution.

On Dec 14, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Sean Cheesman wrote:

> It's a forum trying to answer your question, so why the attitude?   
> You asked something that's not possible, so people are giving you  
> options.  Fee free to hire a programmer to create an application  
> from scratch if this free, publicly-supported solution doesn't work  
> for you.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch]  
> On Behalf Of Dan White [ygor at comcast.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:02 PM
> To: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [mrtg] How can I get totals instead of rates ?
>
> '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.
>
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