[rrd-users] Graphing integer data in Cacti/RRDTool

[Nick Ellson]

Hi Tobi,

In a 1 year graph, for user's online, the high water marks for the day. I 
used to enable the "Keep Peaks" in MRTG for that purpose.

But that was what was useful for my purposes.


Nick

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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Tobias Oetiker wrote:

> Hi Nick,
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>> I am sorry if I did miss your meaning previously. I am having trouble
>> understanding where, between Cacti & RRDTool, I might obtain a graph similar
>> to the artifact I was getting through MRTG graphing non-network throughput. ;)
>> I can take this to the Cacti forums, maybe there are alternatives for
>> displaying the data for specific graph types.
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> as I said before, rrdtool does not have such a function ... we
> could att an INT function to CDEF but it does not exist at the
> moment.
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>> As to the "what would I want to se"e should I have a gap in my data? I
>> actually liked the switch in MRTG that held the previous value, or showed zero
>> for that period. I used a little of both behaviors.
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> You got me wrong. My question was, what sort of numbers you would
> expect to see in a 1 year graph where every day is just one pixel.
> Would you want to see whole numbers too ?
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> cheers
> tobi
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>> Thanks again for helping understand why I was seeing the difference, Tobi! :)
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