[plug] Traffic Monitoring

[Ben Jensz]

Ah yes, RRDTool.. been meaning to check that out :)


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Dudney" <plug at goa-trance.org>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Traffic Monitoring


> If you're using RRD as your logformat then you can do this. (I recommend
> you do if you've got some time to figure out the god-forsaken Reverse
> Polish Notation that rrdgraph uses for its arithmetic).
>
> Just change the step of the .rrd to something like 120 instead of 300,
> and update your crontab to run mrtg every two minutes
> You'll want to resize your RRAs too, as now your rows will be filled up
> quicker as you're inserting new data more often.
>
> --
> Luke
> As a child I could walk on the ceiling. I had butterflies up on the walls.
>
>
> Ben Jensz wrote:
>
> >Yep, I use that too :)
> >
> >But remember its not accurate, because the results are based on 5 minute
> >readings from MRTG.  You can't make MRTG run at shorter intervals (well
not
> >unless you wanna start code hacking).
> >
> >
> >/ Ben
> >
>
>