Inaccurate Total In and Total out

[insight]

Hi,

I have recently installed cacti and set it up to monitor the bandwidth usage of our building.

It is set up on an Ubuntu machine but is monitoring a Windows box that is serving as gateway. The attached picture is of the NIC that supplies internet to the building. I have noticed it before but assumed that I was guesstimating incorrectly, but it seems that the Total In and Total Out values are horribly wrong. After trying to figure out how to fix this and doing some googling I have decided to ask here as well.

Last night I downloaded 1.4GB (2 x 700MB ISO), yet the Totals do not reflect this. Even doing some basic math on the 5 hour 60k/s block gives 60k/s X 5 X 60 X 60 = 1080 MB. The praphic seems to be accurate, the Total seems wrong.

I have seen this happen on another installation so surely this problem is fairly well known, yet i have not found anything on Google which has usually helped me fix almost anything.

Any help would be great.

Edit: Version 0.8.7b

[mcutting]

Might be worth seeing what is the maximum value (if applicable) in this template. This may explain why these values are not being reflected correctly.

[insight]

The maximum value is set to 100 000 000. I have added some more zero's and some views of the graph now display a better value. I presume that the rest will sort themselves out over time?

Thanks for the help