It really does give you something, just because if you graph for a longer timescale rrdtool cannot graph with 5-minute-values but will keep the maxes of the 5-minute-values while calculating so you'll see a different max graph compared to the average graph.
Best regards, Stephan Am Montag, 3. Februar 2003 20:17 schrieb Chris Robb: > We do the same thing, except we don't do MAX for the 5-minute data. I'm > not sure that gives you anything since you're polling every five minutes. > The Maximum of one polling interval is whatever you get for that poll. You > can cut your files down to about 3.3MB by getting rid of that. > > -Chris > > Chris Robb > Indiana University Global NOC > Abilene/TransPAC Network Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: 812-855-8604 Cell: 812-325-8199 > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Andrew Werbowy wrote: > > I got request to store 5 min MRTG data for 2 yr. I know what it is not > > possible with MRTG, so I will have to use RRDTools. I read basic stuff > > about RRD and looks like I would have to do something like this: rrdtool > > create myrouter.rrd \ > > DS:input:COUNTER:600:U:U \ > > DS:output:COUNTER:600:U:U \ > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:210240 \ > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 \ > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 \ > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 \ > > RRA:MAX:0.5:1:210240 \ > > RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700 \ > > RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775 \ > > RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797 > > note 210240 which is 2 year of 5 min stats (I think). Database would be > > 6.8 meg big per switch/router/server interface. What are best practices > > in such cases? > > > > Regards, > > Andrew > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users > > WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Stephan Harren Manager Site Operations MFN-IS ------------------------------- Phone +49 69 90554 153 Fax +49 69 90554 111 Cell +49 173 7011126 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
