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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">This is caused by data normalisation (if the data does not comine in exactly on the 5-min polling boundary, it is averaged to meet this resulting in decimals if your value is small) and caused because
MRTG was designed for network traffic originally.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">To get around it, you have a couple of options.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">1) Use Options[]:integer to make the graph display in integers.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">2) Set your polling to occur exactly on the 5min boundary, possibly by manually updating the RRD with an explicitly pre-normalised time value.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">It would be useful if Tobi in the future adds a new variable type (eg 'exactgauge') the bypasses the normalisation code...</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Steve</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of John Delaney [JDELANEY@lus.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 27 February 2010 7:43 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] Need to display a whole number, no decimal<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When MRTG polls ( 5 minute interval ) it is displaying the ‘current’ record as a number with a decimal. The item being polled is a hard number, no decimal. I do not understand why it adding a decimal, or from where it is getting that
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone run into this before?</p>
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