From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 7:22:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630937B424 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA12321; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:22:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:22:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: BWS - Offwhite Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snmp with mrtg for monitoring Message-ID: <20000925092209.A12040@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000924215649.A4730@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: ; from "BWS - Offwhite" on Mon Sep 25 00:51:40 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 25), BWS - Offwhite said: > Thanks, I think I have it working much better now. I did not relize > the float values were a problem. That article did not offer any > warning about that. > > What does that gauge option do? 'gauge' means that you are measuring an absolute value, as opposed to a counter like your throughput values. Think of fuel gauge. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message