[mrtg] Re: One more question..

Neil Calvert ncalvert at cabletron.com
Thu Sep 30 16:40:45 MEST 1999


you could point it at a 2nd OID which you will know is always zero and
sort of 'workaround' it like that..

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Vincent <mitch at venux.net>
To: Alex van den Bogaerdt <alex at slot.hollandcasino.nl>
Cc: MRTG users <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:32 AM
Subject: [mrtg] Re: One more question..


>Heh.. Since you're going to be like that about it..
>
>#3 on http://www.ltinet.net/info/mrtg/noflashmrtg.htm
>"Is it possible to log one value on the graph instead of two?
>Look in the contrib directory for sample cfg files."
>
>Which I had already read.
>
>[root at dot mrtg-2.8.8]# ls -l contrib
>total 162
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   7227 Aug 26 12:25 00INDEX
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   7036 Aug 12 10:14 00INDEX~
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Aug 26 17:21 14all
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 GetSNMPLinesUP
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 PMLines
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 TCH
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 ascendget
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 atmmaker
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun 15 18:06 cfgmaker_ATM
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jul 19 13:09 cfgmaker_cisco
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun 14 14:51 ciscoindex
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 cpumon
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 diskmon
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 distrib
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 forecd
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 get-active
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun 12 17:06 get-multiserial
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 ircstats
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 jm
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 mrtg-archiver
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 mrtg-blast
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 mrtg-dynip
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jul 19 18:35 mrtg-ipacc
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 mrtg-ipget
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 mrtg-mail
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 mrtgidx
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 mrtgindex.cgi
>drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel    512 Jul 22 19:57 mrtgmk
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  32269 Jul 22 19:56 mrtgmk.tgz
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun 12 17:01 ovmrtg
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 ping-probe
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 portmasters
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 rdlog2
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 rumb-stat
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jul 27 15:25 stat
>drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel    512 Jun 13 18:01 whodo
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Jun  7 06:30 xlsummary
>[root at dot mrtg-2.8.8]#
>
>I didn't see any example config files there, looked through the most of
the
>subdirectories, didn't see any reference to what I want to do. Rather
than
>spend a few hours reading over all the config files that might be there
in
>the subdirectories I thought I would ask, since the answer is clearly
not
>evident and even the docs contridict themselves.
>
>Example:
>
># * You can also explicitly define the OID to query by using the
>#   following syntax 'OID_1&OID_2:community at router'
>#   The following example will retrieve error input and output
>#   octets/sec on interface 1.  MRTG needs to graph two values, so
>#   you need to specify two OID's such as temperature and humidity
>#   or error input and error output.
># Target[ezwf]:
>1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.14.1&1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.20.1:public at myrouter
>
>^-- In the sample config in the doc directory.
>
>No, I'm not an expert with MRTG. I'm just trying to figure out how to
make
>it do what I want it to do. I had 5 hours to do that in and a stack of
>documentation between MRTG and the SNMPD. I've figured out most of it
on my
>own, the few questions that I have asked I probably have looked over
the
>answers to. I don't think anyone was hurt by me asking on the list. Is
that
>not what it's here for?
>
>Bigger ARGH + doot - foobar =  .
>
>-Mitch
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Alex van den Bogaerdt <alex at slot.hollandcasino.nl>
>To: Mitch Vincent <mitch at venux.net>
>Cc: MRTG users <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
>Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:10 AM
>Subject: Re: [mrtg] One more question..
>
>
>> >  Ok, you all can see what I'm doing there.. The problem is the
actual
>graph.
>> > I only want to graph the percent used, there is no second value.
>Providing
>> > the same value for both is producing very strange results (like one
>graph
>> > going clear up to 30+ when the number returned in that OID is 9 ..
Is
>there
>> > some way I can nullify that second value somehow?  Could there be
>another
>> > problem with the way I'm doing this?
>> >
>>
>> 16:07 METDST read question
>> 16:08 METDST start browser and point to the mrtg page
>> 16:08 METDST click official FAQ site
>> 16:08 METDST view number three
>> 16:08 METDST know answer.
>>
>> > Thanks guy, you're all lifesavers :-)
>> >
>> RTFM again.
>>
>> Big ARGH.
>>
>>
>
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