[mrtg] Graphing small values (disappear in the month/year graph)

[Daniel McDonald]

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On 6/2/10 5:18 AM, "Markus" <universe at truemetal.org> wrote:
> 
> The problem that I am encountering is that the event "disappears" after a
> while from the monthly / yearly graphs. I think this is because MRTG is
> building an average of the collected values and this average is becoming
> "smaller and smaller" for the monthly and yearly graphs over time (I can
> confirm that by looking at the logfile) and because of the small value
> and short time span results in the events disappearing completely from
> the
> monthly and yearly graphs.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to solve that?

Withpeak[something] will certainly help, but I imagine the root problem is
that rateup doesn't deal well with small numbers.  rrdtool would be a
better choice for a backend.


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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281

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