[mrtg] Re: Newbie Questions not in the FAQ

[Brad Johns]

It is possible to get mrtg to run faster than five minutes, but 2 things
need to happen. First, you have to change your cron command time (I'll
assume you know this, or can find it somewhere) and the second thing is to
actually modify the mrtg perl script. The reason for modifying the script is
that when it generates the html pages, it sets the timeout at 300 seconds(5
minutes) and you will want to drop this to be as often as the cron job runs.
I don't remeber where exactly this is at, but I know it works, because I
have 6 different mrtg jobs that run, and 5 of them run every minute
(mrtg-ping-probe). I have an older box, so I had to split the config file up
into multiple files to finish in 1 minute.


----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn Barnhart <swb at mercury.campbell-mithun.com>
To: mrtg list <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: [mrtg] Newbie Questions not in the FAQ


> I have some newbie questions that don't seem to be in the FAQ.
>
> 1) Not entirely mrtg related, but is there a "lite" webserver runnable
under
> linux (rh 6.0) usable for serving mrtg-generated pages?  I don't need a
> full-blown apache installation for mrtg, which is the only thing I want to
> serve.
>
> 2) I'd like to be able to monitor some switches with mrtg.  I've run
> cfgmaker with community at switch and I get a config, but I can't seem to run
> indexmaker and get an index page for the switch.  Do switches treat their
> interfaces in a way that keeps cfgmaker and indexmaker from building an
> index page?
>
> 3) Is it a problem to call mrtg at less than at 5 minute intervals?  I'm
> monitoring a small number of interfaces and would like to update it every
90
> seconds.
>
> Other than that, it seems to work really well.
>
> -Shawn
>
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