Turns out multiplying with UNKN does exactly what I need it to do . -- Daniele Sluijters e: d.sluijt...@betterbe.com w: http://www.betterbe.com
On Jul 27, 2011, at 14:18 , Daniele Sluijters wrote: > Hello guys, > > This one might sound familiar to some. MRTG has the (nasty) limitation that > it needs to fetch pairs of data, it can't just fetch 1 or 3 values, they must > always be grouped in logical pairs. > > This presented a problem when 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.13.0 > (ucdavis.memory.memShared) had to be fetched because that value isn't > populated anymore. Instead however of returning 0 (which would be inaccurate) > or Unknown (accurate) "Snmp no such object" is returned. This apparently > confuses MRTG so much that even if the other OID which makes up the pair > .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11.0 does respond with sane values an RRD is created with > two datasource's which just always return NaN. > > Since this is completely useless I decided to fetch .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11.0 > twice, as to make a pair so MRTG can handle it. Now, that works but of course > I'm now graphing two identical values which is both stupid and incorrect. > > I was wondering if anyone had a quick and simple way of rewriting ds0 on the > fly (RPN expression) as to, regardless of what the RRD says, always return > Unknown. That would allow me to create a sensible graph which corresponds to > reality. Any other solution one can come up with is welcome too which > preferably doesn't involve altering the rrd-file itself. > > -- > Daniele Sluijters > e: d.sluijt...@betterbe.com > w: http://www.betterbe.com > > _______________________________________________ > rrd-users mailing list > rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users