[mrtg] Re: Extreme numbers of MRTG Targets.

[Stieers, Ken]

Bruce, 

I'd take a look a rrdtool (the successor to MRTG).  Its still beta, but
stable.  Its at www.caida.org\rrdtool or
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool


Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Campbell [mailto:bruce.campbell at apnic.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 9:55 PM
> To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject: [mrtg] Extreme numbers of MRTG Targets.
> 
> 
> 
> I've got an application which requires the graphing of a 
> sizeable number
> of Targets.  As I've found out, mrtg does not gracefully deal 
> with >5000
> targets [1] in one cfg file.
> 
> Based on people's experience, whats the largest number of 
> targets usable
> in a single cfg file?
> 
> Writing a seperate config file for each target is not an 
> optimal solution
> simply because of the overhead in starting up mrtg each time, 
> and hacking
> the fundamentals out of mrtg is something I'd prefer to avoid 
> if possible.
> 
> An alternative is simply generating the graphs at view-time 
> and caching
> the results, but in this instance I'd prefer a simple solution.
> 
> --==--
> Bruce.
> 
> Sysadm, APNIC.
> 
> [1] Yes, over Five Thousand.  In one run. 
> 
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