Hi,
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Derek Belrose wrote: DB> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:23:18 -0400 DB> From: Derek Belrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DB> To: [email protected] DB> Subject: [rrd-users] Confusion and seeking help with RRDtool DB> DB> DB> Alright, so I'm running mrtg-2.9 with rrdtool 1.0.40 on a HP ProCurve DB> Switch. I do a snmpget on the router: DB> DB> snmpget ip public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctet.1 DB> and that returns: DB> interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.1 = Counter: 2103368116 DB> DB> What does MRTG/RRDTool do to this number in order to enter the DB> information into the database? Does it just add it as is? Does it take DB> the difference between this number and the number prior? This is depend on your datatype (counter, gauge, etc.). By defaut is counter and rrdtool will calculate the speed with the prior value. DB> DB> Also, when I do a rrdtool fetch on the database I get a string of DB> numbers in scientific notation. What is this number in? When I do a DB> graph, I notice the values are actually 10 times less than a reasonable DB> amount. Am I doing something wrong here? DB> DB> In order to correct the graphs I had to do a CDEF:actual=in,10,* and DB> that does work. But some of the data I'm trying to calculate doesn't DB> come out so I need to know what does MRTG store the data as: bits, DB> kbits, whatever. DB> You should multiply by 8 not 10, since rrdtool store the speed as bytes per second. A. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
