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If you add

routers.cgi*Options[xxx]: aspercent

then routers.cgi (and the gauge CGI) will render the values as percent of Maxbytes rather than as their actual values.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Devil in the details... Thanks! Working Great!

I having one weird issue, when the connection is at 100 percent the gauge changes from 1 -100 to 1 - 0.1 or something similar. any ideas?

Also, I thought this would be interesting to you. The xml/swf gauge has been replaced with a new product called "slickboard". I found this out when I tried to buy a license. I notice that you have to use <slickboard> instead of <gauge> in the cgi script for the xml code to be displayed. it almost works properly but the hole gauge twiches instead of the needles.


Reference:
http://www.maani.us/gauge/index.php?menu=License

Attached is a picture of the gauge having the issue. Is it possible that because I'm using binary instead of decimal for my MaxBytes e.g. 1Mb = 1024 vs 1Mb = 1000, that is maybe why the last 95% to 100% are having this issue?

Also I noticed that every MRTG config example uses decimal values. 20MB = 20000000/8 = 2500000, when really data should be 20Mb = 20480000/8 = 2560000.

I've been trying to look at where to modify your cgi script to take these values into account, and at the same time make it compatible with slickboard. any insight???


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The gauge calculates percentages relative to whatever MaxBytes is, so in fact this is independent of whatever you set the K size to be.

At the moment, Im updating the book to produce a 3rd Edition, with the changes for MRTG v2.16.4 and Routers2 v2.21. I'll also get an update for the slickboard as opposed to gauge.swf -- although for that, I'll need to update/modify the gaugexml.cgi script to fix the issue you mention, so it might take a while until I get the opportunity.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Hello Steve , Would you please publish 1st Edit. to 3rd Edit. Addenda ? Say in .pdf form (Or ?) , I'd gladly purchase these rather than a new edition with all the shipping involved .

Tia , JimL

I've been intending to do this, but in fact its actually rather awkward due to the way I've written it.

The original intention was to make a PDF of the 1st ed -> 2nd ed and of the 2nd ed -> 3rd ed changes, and make it freely downloadable from the forum, but its taken longer than I anticipatedv since I didn't make notes of WHAT I added or modified between the editions.

The changes from 2nd -> 3rd are mainly just the changes for MRTG 2.16.4 (cfgmaker parameters, and the RRDRowCount*[] directives) and Routers2 2.21 (%OID and %EXEC symbols). Also there is a bit more about increasing the accuracy of 95th Percentile calcs by correctly using the RRDRowCount directives.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

See this thread viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4209 for details on the new updated version of gaugexml to work with slickboard.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

https://monitor.auckland.ac.nz/wlan3.html has a demo of the latest verison of gaugexml, along with a full dashboard, bar graphs, embedded Routers2 graphs, Nagios support... etc etc

This version is not yet released but will be soon.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

And it is now available, with full support for slickboard.

See this thread for deatils: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4209

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11