[mrtg] Re: Running MRTG on NT - Problems

[Joey Officer]

An option might be to start using the Perl script and spawning different
sessions.  The biggest drawback to this is that it has to be run as a user.
So the machine has to always be logged into, and if the NT machine goes
down, the stats will not be updated untill the machine is logged back in.
This is how I got ours to work, but at the same time, we only monitored
about 15 different OIDs.

The perl script and its usage can be found on the MRTG home page.

hope this helps

Joey Officer
Quality Publishing, Inc.
The Woodlands, Tx. 77380
281-362-7141 x106
800-792-6397

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
> Behalf Of cpt2 at daimlerchrysler.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 1:50 PM
> To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject: [mrtg] Running MRTG on NT - Problems
>
>
> Lately I"ve been having some problems running MRTG.  I'm running NT 4
> Server SP5 and monitoring about 35 devices with about 10 different OIDs
> on each device.
>
> I'm using the MRTG service for NT that I got off the link from the MRTG
> home page.
>
> I've noticed that lately the service has stopped updating every few
> days. When I stop it and restart it it seems to run fine for a few more
> days.
>
> I have 10 configuration files, and I run them from a CMD file that gets
> run every 5 mins.  Now I've looked at the task mamanger and it seems
> that the CMDs seem to build up and not get released.  They are still
> listed in Task mamanger but with 0 mem.  Could these piling up cause
> the stopping of the service?
>
> I've increased from 5 to 6 minutes now to see if perhaps this makes a
> difference.  Perhaps the CMD was overlapping or something.
>
> Can someone suggest a better method of running MRTG every 5 mins on NT
> without much resource hogging?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
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