Graphing total Bandwidth usage?

temak82 · Post by **temak82** » Tue May 02, 2006 3:11 pm

Is there an add-on/script that will allow us to monitor the total bandwidth used in a certain period (a billing period for instance) that will put out the total amount in MB or GB?

Thanks

Post by **rony** » Tue May 02, 2006 3:28 pm

Check out the Bandwidth summation section in Graph Variables chapter of the documentation.

temak82 · Post by **temak82** » Tue May 02, 2006 3:36 pm

Will do. Thanks.

temak82 · Post by **temak82** » Tue May 02, 2006 3:54 pm

That is exactly what I am looking for. However, how do I set this up? Is this already under Templates/Devices or do I need to create it?

Our cacti was setup by a third party and I would like to give this a go myself. Particularly, I'm not sure what to do with the "Name" value as per the guide.

Post by **rony** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:51 pm

Well, there is already a template for Bandwidth summation.

You should be able to alter the template that the graphs in question are using. That is if they are just standard interface graphs.

temak82 · Post by **temak82** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:19 pm

Thanks for your help. I found the templates, however, why are there two Total bandwidth templates? They seem to be the same. Also, from what I understand, if I want the default settings, I can simply add that graph to a host and that's it, correct? Or do I need to do something on the server itself?

Thanks

SoreGums · Post by **SoreGums** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:47 pm

I'm trying to do the same thing. I setup Cacti using out of the box settings and the default templates.
Having done this I have two graphs that are practicly the same.
As can be seen in the picture attached
The difference is that the bottom one has a Total Out in MegaBytes...

How do i get the graph for bandwidth to actually represent bandwidth not throughput? also how do i get the "total in" text to show as well?

Thanks guys

slack · Post by **slack** » Tue May 30, 2006 1:49 pm

I have the same problem with the Total In field on the graph.

qwertz · Post by **qwertz** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:08 pm

To see the total in traffic, Go in the template and check "hard return" in the Max inbound traffic line

amh007 · Post by **amh007** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:59 pm

FYI, if you put a hard return in max output as well as max input, it will line all the data up nicely again (anal, sue me).

SoreGums · Post by **SoreGums** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:26 pm

qwertz wrote:To see the total in traffic, Go in the template and check "hard return" in the Max inbound traffic line

amh007 wrote:FYI, if you put a hard return in max output as well as max input, it will line all the data up nicely again (anal, sue me).

That's worked great, I didn't even notice those templates.... That's probably where I can fix my other issue of getting bandwidth to display instead of through put, now to go and play

Arrow2005 · Post by **Arrow2005** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:32 pm

slack wrote:I have the same problem with the Total In field on the graph.

easy to fix.....

go to Graphtemplates pick the template you have problems with...

ex. Interface - Traffic (bits/sec, Total Bandwidth)

change width from 500 to 600, press save....

Graphing total Bandwidth usage?

Graphing total Bandwidth usage?

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