[mrtg] Re: NT stats gathering problem

Wed Aug 25 02:18:14 MEST 1999

I am running the MRTG application on a Linux 6.0 box and I am polling the
CPU and memory stats of an NT 4.0 box. You bring up an interesting point
about the MIB file. I am able to get the value of the OID that MRTG is
complaining about by using SNMPGET without any difficulty, but is there
somewhere, either within Linux or MRTG that I have to place the NT
performance monitor MIB in order for MRTG to perform a get on the related
OIDs?

Michael D. Holley, CNE
IT Technician
Delta Controls Inc.
mholley at deltacontrols.com

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Hugh Messenger [SMTP:hugh at HiWAAY.net]
	Sent:	Tuesday, August 24, 1999 5:08 PM
	To:	Mark Spieth
	Cc:	'MRTG mailing list'
	Subject:	[mrtg] Re: NT stats gathering problem

	I'm confused - is Mike running this on NT?  I thought his message
	indicated that he is running on Linux, but trying to add polling of
an NT
	box to his stats.

	In which case, likely problem is not having the correct MIB loaded
...

	   -- hugh

	On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Mark Spieth wrote:

	> 1. Yes they are basicly portable, as long as you change your
	> working directory. Which in this case seems to be your problem.
	> If you are running on NT you dont have a /home directory. It
	> should be something like c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mrtg
	> 
	> workDir: /home/httpd/html/web/nt/phoenix
	> IconDir: /home/http/html/web
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> > > -----Original Message-----
	> > > From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch
[mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
	> > > Behalf Of Mike Holley-
	> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 7:27 PM
	> > > To: 'MRTG mailing list'
	> > > Subject: [mrtg] NT stats gathering problem
	> > >
	> > >
	> > > Hi there,
	> > >
	> > > I am trying to setup MRTG to monitor the CPU utilization for
	> > one of our NT
	> > > boxes. MRTG is working fine on our Linux box for monitoring
our router
	> > > throughputs, but when I attempt to use the following config
file
	> > > along with
	> > > MRTG to poll the NT box for  its CPU Util. It errors out. The
	> > following is
	> > > the config file that I am using along with the errors
generated.
	> > > I know that
	> > > the config file mentions that it is for MRTG for NT, so
another
	> > question I
	> > > have is whether or not the config files are portable between
platforms.
	> > > Thanks in advance for any help.
	> > >
	> > > The following is the content of ntcpu.cfg that is used for
	> > polling the NT
	> > > box for CPU utilization
	> > >
	> > >
####################################################################
	> > > # MRTG WINDOWS NT CONFIG FILE
	> > > # EDM268:  CPU #1 Usage (%)
	> > > # Researched and configured (including compile into NT
environment)
	> > > # by Garth K. Williams (1998)
	> > > # Edmonton, AB (403) 469-4341
	> > > # Original Date: 05April1998
	> > > # Lost ALOT of sleep, but couldn't have done it without:
	> > > # MRTG (WHAT A GREAT PROGRAM!)
	> > > # PERL (SEE ABOVE)
	> > > # GD (DITTO)
	> > > # DJGPP (DITTO, AND ALSO HARD TO BELIEVE IT'S FREE)
	> > >
####################################################################
	> > > workDir: /home/httpd/html/web/nt/phoenix
	> > > IconDir: /home/http/html/web
	> > >
	> > > Title[^]: CPU #1 Usage (%) on System:
	> > >
	> > > Background[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: #9090909
	> > >
Target[192.168.50.251_CPU1]:1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.3.0:publ
	> > > ic at 192.168
	> > > .50.251
	> > > MaxBytes[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: 100
	> > > Title[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: Phoenix
	> > > PageTop[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: <H2>CPU #1 Usage (%) on System:
	> > Phoenix</H2>
	> > > options[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: gauge, nopercent, absolute,
transparent
	> > > Unscaled[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: dwmy
	> > > #Supress[192.168.50.251_CPU1]:dwmy
	> > > XSize[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: 380
	> > > YSize[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: 100
	> > > YLegend[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: CPU Usage (%)
	> > > ShortLegend[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: %
	> > > Legend1[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: CPU use in percent
	> > > #Legend2[192.168.50.251_CPU1]:
	> > > #Legend3[192.168.50.251_CPU1]:
	> > > #Legend4[192.168.50.251_CPU1]:
	> > > LegendI[192.168.50.251_CPU1]: CPU:&nbsp
	> > >
	> > > Errors received are as follows :
	> > >
	> > > SNMPGET problems for ifOutOctets sysUptime sysName on
	> > > public at 192.168.50.251
	> > > <mailto:public at 192.168.50.251>
	> > > SNMPGET:Failed to reach target:
	> > > "1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.3.0:public at 192.168.50.251. I
	> > tried multiple
	> > > times!
	> > >
	> > > If I use SNMPGET to query OID :
1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.3.0
	> > > it returns
	> > > the value without any problems.
	> > >
	> > > It looks like MRTG is still attempting to query the OIDs for
the router
	> > > traffic stats. Are there modifications to the MRTG perl script
	> > > that need to
	> > > be made in order to do all of the extra data collection, such
	> > as the CPU,
	> > > hard drive, etc.. monitoring? I thought it was simply the
	> > > implementation of
	> > > the custom config file that was needed in this case.
	> > >
	> > > Michael D. Holley, CNE
	> > > IT Technician
	> > > Delta Controls Inc.
	> > > mholley at deltacontrols.com
	> > >
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