[AusNOG] MRTG measurement sizes

[Tony]

It's been many years (like 10) since I played much with MRTG much. A quick glance at the config options page:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-reference.en.html

suggests that you might want to look at the "unscaled" option. Things I am not sure of:

1. Whether you can set it globally (or need to do it "per target")
2. If it will work without having "MaxBytes" also set, so that it knows what to "unscale" the graphs to

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).

That's my reading of it though and I don't have an install that I can test it on (we use PRTG instead).


regards,
Tony.





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 From: Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com>
To: "<ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2014 9:11 AM
Subject: [AusNOG] MRTG measurement sizes
 


G'day Folks,

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.

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.  

G
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