[mrtg] Re: NT stats gathering problem

Mark Spieth mspieth at telserve.com
Wed Aug 25 02:31:12 MEST 1999 

no you shouldnt have to put the mid in. MRTG doesnt care about the mib just
as long as it can get a value from the oid.

umm, I assume this counter never worked. You need 2 oids..

Target[pooh.cpu]:1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.5.0&1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1
.2.1.4.0:public at host

> -----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 8:18 PM
> To: 'Hugh Messenger'; Mark Spieth
> Cc: 'MRTG mailing list'
> Subject: [mrtg] Re: NT stats gathering problem
>
>
> 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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