[mrtg] Re: problems with disk/cpu data collections

Brian Byrnes brian at insnet.com
Thu Nov 18 21:52:47 MET 1999


Could you give me an example please?

Thanks,
Brian

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Neil Calvert wrote:

> You answered it yourself - MRTG needs 2 variables to graph. if you don't
> give it 2, it don' work!
> 
> Why not graph 2 separate disk partitions, or perhaps just graph the same
> number twice, just to provide a second variable.
> 
> Personally I graph 2 partitions. My systems look at the root partition
> and the partition most of the applications are installed on.
> 
> Neil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Byrnes <brian at insnet.com>
> To: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon at creighton.edu>
> Cc: dcurry at dollar.com <dcurry at dollar.com>; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
> Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 3:33 PM
> Subject: [mrtg] Re: problems with disk/cpu data collections
> 
> 
> >Yeah that was my bad...but when I change them to the correct ``, I get:
> >
> >Problem with Externale get
> >'`/home/mrtg/mrtg-2.8.9/contrib/diskmon/getdisk.pl helios 1`':
> >    Expected an INTEGER for 'out' but got ''
> >
> >I have been told that this is expected because mrtg wants 2 outputs and
> >getdisk only shows one.  Still why doesn't the graph work?
> >
> >TIA,
> >Brian
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> >
> >> > I am having the same problem with my getdisk.  I can copy and paste
> the
> >> > exact line from my config:
> >> >
> >> > Target[ns1root]: '/home/httpd/html/mrtg/getdisk.pl ns1 1'
> >>
> >> Should that not read:
> >>
> >> Target[ns1root]: `/home/httpd/html/mrtg/getdisk.pl ns1 1`
> >>
> >> ?
> >> --
> >> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
> .-.-
> >> .
> 

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