On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve Shipway wrote: > > if i need to see the graph for the traffic that flew through the > interface > > about three months ago is there any way to tackle it out. I know that > it > > shows the monthly graph too but thats not in a readable format and i > need > > to see the traffic of a particular month than can i see it, > > You presumably are interested in the detailed (daily) graph for a date 3 > months in the past? > > This data is normally expired by RRD after a week or two, so you need > some way to preserve it and some way to display it. To preserve it, you > can either modify the .rrd file to have a much, much longer retention > period, or you can make a daily archive of the .rrd files. Both cases > will require a substantial amount more disk space, as you are storing > about 12 times as much data. > > To display it, you will need to either write your own display utility, > or use one which can cope with archived or extended rrd files. > > (biased advice coming) > You can do this using routers2 as your frontend for MRTG/RRD. If you > enable 'RRD archiving' (this requires a nightly job to archive the .rrd > files and expire old archives) then you will get an additional date > dropdown in the frontend so that you can display graphs for archived > data. Instructions are in the doc/HOWTO file distributed with routers2. > We use this here to archive daily (5min resolution) for three months, > and monthly (2h resolution) for three years. > > Steve Or you can write a script to save the html and png files to a separate location daily via a cron job and rename the files to the date so that you can access them when you need.
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