[mrtg] Re: Caching SNMP Responses

[Vanish Pattni (DSL AK)]

What I do is record the data for the two devices separately. Then with the
recorded data in rrd files I use RRGrapher to get data from the two rrd
files and graph them together. Effectively tyhis separates my data
collection from graphing and gives me frredom to do whatever I want with the
data.

Hope that helped or was slightly insightful.

Vanish

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair.McGlinchy at marks-and-spencer.com
[mailto:Alistair.McGlinchy at marks-and-spencer.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:35 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Caching SNMP Responses 


Hi All,

Is there any way to tell MRTG to Cache it's SNMP queries so that it only
polls a device once, even if the ip/port combo is mentioned multiple times
in a config file.

For example I would like to graph the CPU of two routers, and also have a
graph of the sum of the CPUs of both routers (so that I know what my
disaster-recoverable capacity is). 

My CFG file looks similar to the following example. 

Target[RouterA1]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0&.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0:public at x.y.
z.1
<etc>
Target[RouterA2]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0&.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0:public at x.y.
z.2 
<etc>
Target[RouterA1andA2]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0&.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0:public
@x.y.z.1 + 
 
.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0&.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0:public at x.y.z.2  
<etc>

So the router is polled 4 times even though only two SNMP polls should be
required and the duplicate OID is requested twice in the same frame.Can
anyone suggest a way I can get MRTG to poll these devices more efficiently?
I'd ideally like to have a lot more targets like "RouterA1andA2" but without
having to consider the overhead of doubling my SNMP traffic. 

I could, perhaps, do the addition using a backtick target to read from the
first line of the .log files, but that seems awfully backward and
inefficient.

Any suggestions? 

Alistair



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