[mrtg] Displaying Actual Numbers

[Steve Shipway]

If you're using Routers2, then what you need to do is add the extended option 'fixunit':

routers.cgi*Options[xxx]: fixunit

This prevents the m/k/M/G prefixes.  However, note that there may not be enough space on the y-axis for the labels if the numbers are now very big.  Using RRDtool 1.3.x helps (it has more space at the y-axis for labels).

You may also want to add the 'integer' option, as due to normalisation of data windows you might find that you end up with decimals.  And, the extended options 'nototal' and 'nopercentile' (if this should not be totalled as a rate or the 95th percentile calculated); finally the 'nopercent' option prevents the percentage of MaxBytes from being calculated (if there is no meaning to this), and 'nomax' tells Routers2 that there is no real upper limit (so no max line, no percentage, etc)

Steve

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From: mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Sean Cheesman [scheesman at caeveo.com]
Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2009 10:48 a.m.
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Subject: [mrtg] Displaying Actual Numbers

Ok, so I am sure this is an easy question to answer, but I can't figure it out.  How can I display the actual number and not a "summarized" number?  I am running RRD/Routers2.  In this case, I'd like to see the actual prefixes returned by each BGP neighbor.  The number returned from one target is 273225, but of course this is being shortened to 273.23k.  This is ugly for several reasons.  Any help or advice?  Thanks!

Sean
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