Re: Traffic warning?

On 2006-12-08 12:48, Flemming Bjerke <flem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We are implementing traffic warning with munin (eth0 /
> ip_XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX),
> and now it works. However, due to the strong variations, traffic
> warnings
> about average traffic pr. 5 min. are not interesting. Rather, we need
> traffic
> warning of the average pr. 8 hours or pr. day.
> 
> Is there any simple way to do that? Could we for instance fix it by a
> simple
> change the ip-plugin?

The plugin does not have overview of historical data, it would be the
wrong end to work in.

You could write a plugin that uses a rrd file for input, and computes,
for example, the average for the last 8 hours. Install this on the munin
server. And please contribute it afterwards :-)

Nicolai




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