Turns out multiplying with UNKN does exactly what I need it to do .

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Daniele Sluijters
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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
> 
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