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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 07:52 +0000, EDV Service Dregger - Support wrote:<BR>
> Hey all!<BR>
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> <BR>
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> I´m trying to monitor the traffic of our switches which have several<BR>
> ports that are down from time to time. What can i do to include them<BR>
> into my cfg? I´ve read the FAQ that told me to use the cfgmaker with<BR>
> the parameter --no-down parameter like this:<BR>
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> <BR>
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> perl cfgmaker --no-down public@esd-sw-02 --global "WorkDir: C:¥inetpub<BR>
> ¥wwwroot¥MRTG" --output esd-sw-02.cfg<BR>
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> <BR>
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> Why ever, the ports that are down during creation of the cfg file are<BR>
> marked out and so they are not part of the monitoring. I´m sure there<BR>
> must be a way to fix my problem, but i don´t know how…. Could you help<BR>
> me?<BR>
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The issue is that the ports auto-sense the speed of the interface.<BR>
cfgmaker sees the interfaces with a speed of zero and removes them. I<BR>
recall there was some option to set the default speed for that case, but<BR>
I don't recall the option off the top of my head...<BR>
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX<BR>
www.austinenergy.com<BR>
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