I don't understand ! (data conversions)

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Oxygen713
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I don't understand ! (data conversions)

Post by Oxygen713 »

hi all!

please could you explain me how do cacti manage to convert a counter value (ex: Outbound traffic: "The total number of octets transmitted out of the
interface, including framing characters." I mean a data which is only increasing in time.) Into a value in bytes (or bits) per seconds without any visible use of mathematical functions? :cry:

Thanks!
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Take a look at the RRDtool documentation at http://www.rrdtool.org. Cacti uses RRDTool to store statistical data and generate the graphs, it will answer your questions.
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Post by Oxygen713 »

ohh! Thank you for your answer roni! ;-)
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