RATEUP(1)

💖 RATEUP(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to rateup — the little icon from the mrtg manual collection who literally just makes images for MRTG. that's the whole job. she's the graphics girlie. 🎀

✨ 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]

like. look at her. two whole modes. pick one, bestie. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so rateup is a fast add-on to the great MRTG Traffic monitor. not a replacement, an add-on, okay? and the way she upgrades the whole experience?? she makes the database file updates much faster, and she creates the graphic image files, ready for processing by PPMTOGIF. iconic behaviour honestly.

and the numbers?? not me about to scream:

• she reduces memory requirements by a factor of 10 🧠✨
• and she increases the speed of updates by a factor of at least 10 🔥🔥

which means — and this is the part that changes your whole life — it becomes feasible to run mrtg every 5 minutes. every five minutes!! she ate and left no crumbs fr fr. 👑

💜 the log file lore 💜

ngl this part is lowkey the coolest. rateup attempts to compensate for missed updates by repeating the last sample, and she also tries to catch bad update times. she's keeping an eye on everything, bestie. 🫶

and then the .log file does this whole time-collapsing glow-up:

• it stores real history every five minutes for 31 hours ⏱️
• then it 'compresses' the history into 30 minute samples for a week 🗜️
• then 2-hour samples for 31 days 📆
• then daily samples for two years 📅

all of which ensures that the log files don't grow in size. she's on a diet and she's thriving. no bloat, no drama. periodt. 💖

🍓 one lil heads up 🍓

the log files are a slightly different format, but convert.perl will fix that for you. don't panic, it's giving minor inconvenience at worst. 🙈

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

the legends behind her, say thank you:

• Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com> 💌
• Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch> 💌
• Alexandre Steinberg <steinberg@base.com.br> 💌

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read her friends, they're all slaying in their own lanes:

• mrtg(1)
• mrtg-reference(1)
• mrtg-logfile(1)
• mrtg-traffic-sum(1)
• cfgmaker(1)
• indexmaker(1)

and that's the whole page bestie!! this version is 2.17.10, dated 2022-01-19, and it comes to you straight from the mrtg squad. mwah, go generate some images 💅💖✨🌈