>> I don't fully understand what MRTG does under the hood to get >> the "data over time" parts. > > It collects the data every 5 minutes and shoves it into a flat > text file. Once the data is in there, you don't need to do > anything else except let it continue to collect data.
Noted, thanks, will review the format. > In your case with mail messages, you need to make > sure that you're getting at least 300 mail messages per 5 > minute period. If less than that, MRTG will report that > you have 0 messages per minute, shown in 5 minute > graphinh increments. Because if you get *close* to > 300, but not quite 300 (like 299), is less than > 1. Therefore it will show up as a 0 rate for that > 5 minute time period. If you continue to get less than > 1 message per second on average, the graph > will continue to show 0. Once you get the idea, > it's pretty easy to follow. Of course, there are options > you can add (like perminute) to change that > graphing/data collection behavior. Can you point me to some relevant links, I know for sure, I wont be doing 300 over 5 minutes, no where close to that. > Make sense? Good. If not, keep asking questions, > We were all newbies once. I certainly will :-) I am just addicted to this thing now, working on a way to MRTG how many cigarettes I smoke per day :-) > Remember that MRTG was designed to report data > flowing through a network interface in five minute > intervals. It has evolved into being able to report > on any integer rate of change over time, typically > in 5 min, 30 min, 2 hour and 24 hour increments. Yeah, constantly amazing me the results I get in google and what people have adapted it to be able to do. Thanks again. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
