[mrtg] ...MRTG intermittently recording zero values instead of valid values

[Steve Shipway]

> We are using MRTG in native mode (no RRDTool).  I'm aware of the
> integer
> constraint and am fairly certain it is not this.  I've tried graphing
> as
> a rate by running the cron job once per hour and multiplying the number
> of pages by 3600 in order to keep an integer. (I realize there is a
> perhour option as well.)  Alternatively, I've also tried graphing using

You *are* running the cronjob every 5mins (or whatever you set the Interval to be), I hope?  Otherwise MRTG won't store anything, as it needs 5min samples and will put 'unknown' or zero if it doesn’t get more than 50% of the samples for a given interval.

Steve

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