[mrtg] Re: More than one mrtg machine?

Thu Jan 4 02:14:47 MET 2001

I have 10 low end pentium rack mounted linux boxes polling devices.  These
weren't used anymore, but were perfect for this application.  Each mounts a
2 directories via nfs from high-end linux box, which is the mrtg web server.
Each polling box mounts a data directory, and also mounts a shared conf
directory.  I use rrdtool, so the polling devices only collect data and
update the log files.  The web server generates the html and graphs on the
fly using a cgi script.  There is one .conf per polled device (router1.conf
router2.conf, etc.).  Each linux box has one main conf file, i.e.
mrtg1.conf, mrtg2.conf, which has include statements for each device conf
which is polled by that machine.  Placing all the conf files in one
directory makes it easy (and fast) to use one cgi script to generate all the
graphs, on demand.

We have routers all over the world, with varying bandwidth and latency.  It
was only by using rrdtool, which allowed me to separate the polling from the
html generation, that I was able use cheap, relatively slow hardware and
still be able to poll everything in 5 minutes.

This setup is working very well so far.

regards,

Randall Fleischmann

-----Original Message-----
From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
Behalf Of Paul C. Williamson
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:04 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] More than one mrtg machine?

Fellow mrtg users,

Does anyone out there in data land have more than one mrtg machine in their
enterprise?  I have a need to monitor about twice the number of devices I am
currently mornitoring, which will push the total devices I monitor to well
over
4,000.  With more than one target per device, I would bet I'm hitting more
than
8000 targets per 5 minute round.  Is there a way to integrate more than one
mrtg
machine into the mix, other than having one do just data collection and
graphing,
while the main one does the collecting, graphing, and web serving?

Thanks,
Paul

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