Nagios XI and MRTG showing Bytes

[rbuckle]

What is the best process to change MRTGs Bytes into Bits in Nagios XI?

Explaination:

I work for an ISP, we monitor our border routers for bandwidth.... our current charting (not Nagios) shows everything in Bits, we pay for Bits... for some reason Nagios XI's VM shows the bandwidth in Bytes.

Can anything be done?

[rkennedy]

What plugin are you using to check the service in question?

[rbuckle]

the auto discover setup

check_xi_service_mrtgtraf

[rkennedy]

Thanks for that. There is a previous post that has a bit of information about changing ti from bytes -> bits. Here it is -
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=31476

I think you'll be limited based on that plugin, it may be worth taking a look at what other options you may have.

[rbuckle]

I read that thread... it is not clear as to what was actually done... I am currently running the prepackaged VHD for Nagios XI

[rkennedy]

It is not clear what was done, but with that last thread in mind I don't think you'll be able to change it from bytes -> bits with this plugin.

I took a look over at our exchange, and found this plugin -
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... af/details

From the looks of it, it'll display it in bytes with the -u flag.

[rbuckle]

that is what i read also, but nothing tells me where to put the -u flag so it changes system wide.

[rkennedy]

You should be able to configure your check_command to have the -u variable hard coded.