[rrd-users] Re: What kind of data is stored?

[Arthur]

I'll explain a bit further.
I'm creating a parser for MRTG.cfg files.
(The same files who are used by the routers2.cgi util)

Now I have counters (e.g. a firewall rule counter) and some traffic 
measurements.
routers2.cgi seems to know when to multiply data by 8 for plotting traffic 
data.
I was wondering how routers2.cgi determines this.
But it seems there is not way of doing this, right?
Maybe I should just look for the word 'traffic' in the description...

Well.. thanks anyway!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex van den Bogaerdt" <alex at ergens.op.het.net>
To: <rrd-users at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:04 AM
Subject: [rrd-users] Re: What kind of data is stored?


> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:54:17AM +0100, Arthur wrote:
>
>> I have (another) question.
>> Were can I lookup what kind of data is stored in RRD files?
>
> Data in an RRA are always rates, changes over time, per second.
>
> Their type (bytes, personnel, sparrows flying east to west) cannot
> be determined from the RRD.  You need to know what you put in to
> know what you get out.
>
>> This is for multiplying the octets with a factor of 8, but I don't want 
>> this
>> for all graphs, since we have counters  who not need to be multyplied by
>> 8...
>
> So?  Just don't multiply by eight?  Either you see a problem that's not
> there, or you didn't explain it very well.
>
>> So actually, the guestion really is, how can I see if a graph should be a
>> 'traffic graph' or just 'a graph'... ?
>
> If you put traffic in, you get traffic as output. If not, not.
>
> HTH
> Alex
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