There are two problems here.

First, you are running data collection every 10 minutes.  Unless you initially 
set the Interval to be 10, then this will mean you have 50% of your data 
unknown, since you are (by default) supposed to poll every 5 minutes.  As your 
have a default XFF of 0.5 this can result in all your data becoming 'unknown'.

Secondly, your data polling may be failing - but its hard to say as I don't 
know what you're monitoring.  Possibly one of your monitored devices is down, 
or unreachable, or the community string is wrong?  Check your error logs.  If 
you are failing to poll, or the poll is taking >5min, then you will get 
unknowns stored.  The Routers2 frontend will show this as a grey block to 
indicate 'data unknown' or 'device unpollable', but native MRTG (and 14all) 
will default to the 'unknasprev' option (see below)

Now, if you have the 'unknasprev' option set in Routers2, or you are using 
native MRTG (which does unknasprev by default), then 'unknown' data will be 
displayed as the last known good value.  In your case, you may have mostly 
unknowns, so you'd get a single, flat, solid green area.  This appears to be 
what's happening.  If the time on the x-axis is changing, then you know your 
graph is being re-created, but the polling is failing and the unknasprev option 
is just logging the last known good value.

Check your polling.  Probably, the SNMP community has changed, or the network 
is not working the same, or there is another problem.  Run the MRTG poll from 
the command line to see if there are any obvious error messages.  Make sure 
your polling is really running.  Schedule it every 5 mins instead of every 10 
mins so the XFF (see the RRDtool documentation) doesn't log everything as zero.

Good luck...

Steve

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hughes, Andy

I installed mrtg two weeks ago to monitor traffic to/from an individual router. 
All seemed to be well; I watched the graphs move as the week went on etc.  For 
some reason, the graph no longer moves at all (i.e. no peaks and valleys)--the 
entire thing is just solid green.

I run mrtg every 10 minutes by a scheduled task that calls a batch file in the 
\bin directory (Server 2003) that has a single line: perl mrtg mrtg.cfg  I 
notice that when I was on the server initially when mrtg was running properly, 
the command window would briefly flash when the batch file ran. Now it stays 
open much, much longer before disappearing?

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