[mrtg] Re: threshold syslog

[Benjamin Madsen]

Actually, since MRTG uses PERL, there is a package called Sys::Syslog that
is a very useful little package.

Ben Madsen
Virtual Learn, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Irwin [mailto:bvi-mrtg-list at rucus.ru.ac.za]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:52 AM
To: slaporte at medis.ca
Cc: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: threshold syslog



On Wed 2000-08-09 (10:35), slaporte at medis.ca wrote:
> I need to send a syslog message to a remote computer on my network when a
> percentage of bandwith is in use. Has anybody found a way to do this with
the
> threshold commands. I have MRTG-2.8.12 on a linux REdhat 6.0 box.

my suggestion would be to write a C wrapper program which you have mrtg call
when thresholds are reached.  look at the syslog(3) man page.  Shouldnt be
too much trouble to have a simple C program that takes some parameters, and
then injects a message into syslog.

I've actually been considering writing something like this for a while.

Barry

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