[mrtg] Re: Crontab or ????

[Martinez, Samson]

Is there a recommended or required maximum that forks can be set to?

Samson


-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:oetiker at ee.ethz.ch]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:53 PM
To: Alan Rader
Cc: 'MRTG'
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Crontab or ????


Today Alan Rader wrote:

 |
 | For those of you running MRTG on Unix boxes and monitoring several
hundred
 | devices, do you put an entry into the crontab to run each config file you
 | have every 5 min. or however often or is there some other maybe more
 | efficient way of doing it?
 |
 | I just setup a FreeBSD machine, was using 2000, but firedaemon got
corrupt
 | somehow and I could never get it to work again.  I have it working as far
as
 | I can tell, just setup one machine to monitor, but I was wondering the
best
 | way to go about setting everything else up.  Basically I planned on
making
 | separate folders for each device or location for all the html png etc
files
 | and then have all the config file in one place thinking this would make
it a
 | little easier to manage and find stuff when needed.

the best performance is achieved by running mrtg as a daemon with
forking enabled ... the more routers the higher you should set your
fork count ...

cheers
tobi
 |
 | Thanks
 |
 |
 | Alan Rader
 | Finish Line, Inc.
 | Network Administrator
 | arader at finishline.com
 | 317-899-1022 x3529
 |
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