man pages section 1: User Commands

rateup (1)

Name

rateup - Create graphic image files for MRTG

Synopsis

rateup -f <parameter file>
rateup directory basename [sampletime] [t sampletime]
[-(t)ransparent] [-(b)order]
[u|a|g|h|m in out abs_max]
[i/p file maxvi maxvo maxx maxy growright step bits]

Description

rateup(1)                        User Commands                       rateup(1)



NAME
       rateup - Create graphic image files for MRTG

SYNOPSIS
       rateup -f <parameter file>
       rateup directory basename [sampletime] [t sampletime]
             [-(t)ransparent] [-(b)order]
             [u|a|g|h|m in out abs_max]
             [i/p file maxvi maxvo maxx maxy growright step bits]

DESCRIPTION
       rateup is a fast add-on to the great MRTG Traffic monitor. It makes the
       database file updates much faster, and creates the graphic image files,
       ready  for processing by PPMTOGIF.  It also reduces memory requirements
       by a factor of 10, and increases the speed of updates by a factor of at
       least 10.  This makes it feasible to run mrtg every 5 minutes.

       rateup  attempts to compensate for missed updates by repeating the last
       sample, and also tries to catch bad update times.  The .log file stores
       real  history  every  five  minutes for 31 hours, then 'compresses' the
       history into 30 minute samples for a week, then 2-hour samples  for  31
       days,  then  daily  samples  for  two years.  This ensures that the log
       files don't grow in size.

       The log files are a slightly different format,  but  convert.perl  will
       fix that for you.

AUTHOR
       Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>, Alexandre Steinberg <steinberg@base.com.br>

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |diagnostic/mrtg              |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Uncommitted                  |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Standard                     |See standards(5).            |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | diagnostic/mrtg  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile         |
       +---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
       mrtg(1),  mrtg-reference(1), mrtg-logfile(1), mrtg-traffic-sum(1), cfg-
       maker(1), indexmaker(1)

NOTES
       Source for rateup is available on http://opensolaris.org.


       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source                was                downloaded                from
       http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/pub/mrtg-2.17.4.tar.gz

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg.



SunOS 5.11                        9 Jan 2009                         rateup(1)