Thank your very much. It saved so much time.<br><br>- Mahendra<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Sebastian Harl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sh@tokkee.org">sh@tokkee.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Mahendra,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:40:04AM -0400, Mahendra Kutare wrote:<br>
> Can someone please explain if the UNITs in if_octets_* are in Bits/sec or<br>
> Bytes/sec ?<br>
<br>
</div>The latter.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I see the name of the file as if_octets_* and that tells me its 8bits<br>
> counted so Bytes/sec but I see the plugin documentation -<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Interface" target="_blank">http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Interface</a><br>
><br>
> and there is a graph which marks UNITs in Bites/sec ? So which one is it ?<br>
<br>
</div>collection.cgi / collection3 (the example graphing scripts shipped in<br>
contrib/) multiple the value stored in the RRD file with 8 before<br>
graphing it. So, while the values that are collected and stored<br>
represent bytes, those scripts "convert" them to bits before graphing.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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