[rrd-users] Get information from traffic

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Steve ROUX wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've a problem to get traffic information from rrd-tool. I use Cacti  
> to
> monitor my network (see rrd graph on attached file) and if I execute
> this command on bash "#rrdtool lastupdate
> serveur_st-foy_traffic_in_27.rrd" , I obtain that :
>
>    #rrdtool lastupdate serveur_st-foy_traffic_in_27.rrd
>                               traffic_in traffic_out
>        1247141111: 3037444102 66104081
>
> I don't understand the signification of 3037444102 and 66104081? It's
> not bit/s ...

What is the units type from your source of data (i.e. the router or  
other device you're monitoring)? It's octets if you're querying the  
snmp standard ifInOctets and ifOutOctets OIDs.

--
Marc