> What I would like is to take the total number > and plot the difference at 5 minute intervals, therefore > showing at every 5 minutes how many faxes were sent.
Define the target as a normal counter. Add the 'perminute' option (then you will see the number of faxes per minute). You can't do a similar for per 5mins, although you can do 'perhour'. You probably dont want the 'integer' option since although you can't send half a fax, because you poll every 5 mins you might have a rate of 0.2 faxes/min. You could add 'Factor[]: 5' but this will mess up any totalling calculations. If you use routers2 as your frontend, then both perminute and perhour are honoured, and (if you enable 95th percentiles and totals in the routers2.conf) you will get daily, weekly, monthly and yearly totals of faxes sent. The only other way to do it (as has already been said) is to make your plugin return a GAUGE type number that is the number sent in the last 5 minutes (or since the last check). In this case, you won't be able to accurately use totalling, though, as this expects a proper count. Hope this helps Steve -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
