<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">It's been many years (like 10) since I played much with MRTG much. A quick glance at the config options page:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-reference.en.html</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""
style=""><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style="">suggests that you might want to look at the "unscaled" option. Things I am not sure of:</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style=""><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style="">1. Whether you can set it globally (or need to do it "per target")</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style="">2. If it will work without having "MaxBytes" also set, so that it knows what to "unscale" the graphs to</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style=""><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class="">You can also use "AbsMax" which may allow you to set the Y axis of your graphs to "MaxBytes", yet still allow values that are larger than MaxBytes to occur (as long as values are less than AbsMax).</div><div style="background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class="">That's my reading of it though and I don't have an install that I can test it on (we use PRTG instead).</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class="">regards,</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class="">Tony.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size:
16px; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></span></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <hr size="1" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> Geordie Guy <elomis@gmail.com><br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> "<ausnog@lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 15 May 2014 9:11 AM<br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b>
[AusNOG] MRTG measurement sizes<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""><div id="yiv8140058147" class="" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style="">G'day Folks,<div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">We have a fairly simply MRTG deployment and I'd like to make one tweak - I can't find how to force a particular metric so that our main dashboard shows Mbps as the metric across the board.</div>
<div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">It's a bit distracting to see a backup link out the corner of my eye highly active and the primary a little active, only for my head to go "yeah that's 80% utilised out of 16 bytes per second, and 30% utilised out of 5.2Mbps though" to correct it. </div>
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