On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 09:51 -0800, nangineni praneeth wrote: > Hello everyone > > I am working on a project titled network > monitoring and would like to add few details in my documentation...I > searched for these question over the web but couldnt find anything.... > > > 1) Why are we specifying max bytes when we are using MRTG to monitor > rtt, packetloss,cpuload etc?.I mean rtt or other variables like > packetloss have nothing to do with max bytes....
It's called MaxBytes because mrtg was originally designed to monitor traffic, and non-backward compatible changes are hugely frowned upon. > I know that MRTG requires that options but couldnt figure out why?? For counters, it needs to know the max so it can detect counter roll-overs. For non-counters, it needs to know the max so it can determine percentage correctly. > Would be grateful if someone could answer how max bytes option is > related to these variables It's the maximum value expected to be present. > 2)options [:]:integer.......what does this option....The mrtg website > says "Print summary lines below graph as integers without > commas"....was little confused by this...can anyone clearly tell me > what this option does... I think that removes the k/m/g suffixes, but I haven't played with rateup in a while, so I don't recall. > 3) I can monitor rtt and packet loss with MRTG by making use of > mrtg-ping-probe.... > I did the following from cmd > > c:/mrtg/bin/>perl mrtg -ping -probe 192.168.5.1 and it returned me two > values > 47 > 48 More than likely, inbound latency and outbound latency, but you would need to check the mrtg-ping-probe file to make certain. > what does these two values represent......are these two values > representing the incoming bytes counT and external bytes count...again > why am i speaking in terms of bytes count when monitoring ping and > rtt... > > I know these are lot of questions....But since i am working on this > project i must be able to answer these questions.........tried lots on > the web but couldnt find answers for these > Would be really thankful if someone helps me out > > Regards > Venkat..... -- Dan McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP# 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
