Tobi,
I am sorry if I did miss your meaning previously. I am having trouble understanding where, between Cacti & RRDTool, I might obtain a graph similar to the artifact I was getting through MRTG graphing non-network throughput. ;) I can take this to the Cacti forums, maybe there are alternatives for displaying the data for specific graph types. As to the "what would I want to se"e should I have a gap in my data? I actually liked the switch in MRTG that held the previous value, or showed zero for that period. I used a little of both behaviors. Thanks again for helping understand why I was seeing the difference, Tobi! :) Nick -- Nick Ellson CCIE# 20018 MCSE 2000, Security+, Network+ Network Hobbyist, VFR Private Pilot. On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Nick, > > Today Nick Ellson wrote: > >> >> Hi Tobi! >> >> In this case, with the # of users logged in, I'd like it to display the >> sampling that it has for the 12:00 instant. Then the 12:05 instant for the >> 12:05-12:10 window. >> >> So ultimately perhaps I need Cacti's poller to assist in keeping the data >> collection times consistant over the 5 min polling intervals, yet tell >> RRDTool >> that the data set it is dealing with is integer in nature. >> >> And from what I read, there seems to a a small handful of data sets folks are >> graphing that fit this model (where an interpolation with a decimal answer >> make no sense). > > hmmm what I tried to tell you is, that it DOES make sense, or what > should it display in a graph where you see one value for a whole > day ? > >> How would you describe the behavior that MRTG without RRD behaved in this >> matter? As it did produce the squarewave like graphs I felt did a great job >> of >> representing interger gauges such as this. > > mrtg was designed with network traffic in minde, kilo, mega giga > bytes, decimals did not seem to matter in this context. So what you > are seeing is a artifact due to a 'miss-use' of mrtg :-) > > cheers > tobi > > > > -- > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten > http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 > _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users