[mrtg] Re: NT stats gathering problem

Stieers, Ken KStieers at dainrauscher.com
Wed Aug 25 13:45:23 MEST 1999


Mike, 

You only have one OID on you target line.  You need two:

Target[192.168.50.251_CPU1]:1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.3.0&someotherOID:p
ublic at 192.168.50.251

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Holley- [mailto:mholley at deltacontrols.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 6:27 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:
> public 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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