Correcting mailscanner-mrtg output

[Kevin Spicer]

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 20:43, Gerry Doris wrote:

>Kevin, I forgot to mention that I have never understood the meaning of
>the
>green percent line in the ethernet graph.  This is probably my lack of
>knowledge but the numbers seem very strange.  I have been commenting
>the
>appropriate line out of mailscanner-mrtg.cfg to remove it.

>How do you interpret the ethernet % graph?

I'd like to say I'm glad you asked me that - but I'm not.  :(

>From my TODO list...
"The whole IP traffic thing, do these stats actually mean anything?"

The more I look at it the more I'm convinced its nonsense.  Apart from
anything else it uses sar - so its a snapshot of 5 seconds or data every
5 minutes.  Which explains the wide fluctuations in the graph.

Sorting out all the sar based graphs (cpu, memory and network) is the
very next thing I'm going to look at.  Unfortunately it's looking like
SNMP might be the way to go, unless anyone can suggest another
(portable) way of getting this kind of info.