[rrd-users] Re: Graphing total MBs used in a month

[Matt Hyne]

At Tuesday, 18-06-02 13:26 (+0200), Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

>Matt Hyne wrote:
>
> > Basically, I need to reset a counter at the beginning of the billing
> > period, then add the difference in ifInOctets between sampling periods to
> > build up the total BW used - then graph it.
>
>Basically, you need to make use of the fact that an average multiplied
>by an amount of time results in the total amount of bytes.
>
>If you create a graph starting at 20020515 ending at start+30d
>this results in an average of 2 MB/s.  If the average is 2 MB/s
>and the amount of seconds is 30*86400 then the amount of MB is
>30*86400*2.
>
>Use rrdtool graph *without* graphing elements but *with* PRINT (not
>GPRINT) do calculate the average.

It would be nice if I could graph the actual traffic used so I can see trends.

>Oh, and read the archives next time.

I did - and found nothing.  It is not that easy to search.
(and there has to be a better way of saying this)

Thanks for the help,
Matt

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