On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Simon Hobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >>I am looking at the logs of our fax servers, which run a card by >>Eicon. The logfile has information like call direction, which I >>would want to track as in, out and total, call time (start of call), >>call duration and port number plus other information which for >>tracking purpose I don't care about. >> >>I am thinking about running a script on this to feed into RRD maybe, >>like once an hour to check the previous hour. But how would you >>organize this in RRD? > > RRD will only track rates, so you cannot use it to track individual > calls or their start times. You could track number of calls, and > total durations. > > For logging number of calls, there are two ways of doing it. One is > to total the calls per unit of time in your scripts, and pass this in > as a data type absolute. The other would be to do an update for each > call and feed in the value 1 for each call made/received - again data > type absolute and assuming you don't ever have two calls on the same > second. > > Similarly, for call durations, you can either add them up for each > time period and do an update with that total, or do an update for > each call. > > -- > Simon Hobson
I did something very much like what Simon describes except it was for PRI circuits (23 channels) and not a single FAX. The call volume across the PRI made for interesting graphs. _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
