RATEUP(1)                            mrtg                            RATEUP(1)



NAME
       rateup - tool to generate images 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>, Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>, Alexandre
       Steinberg <steinberg@base.com.br>

SEE ALSO
       mrtg(1), mrtg-reference(1), mrtg-logfile(1), mrtg-traffic-sum(1),
       cfgmaker(1), indexmaker(1)



2.17.10                           2022-01-19                         RATEUP(1)
