[mrtg] Re: provisioning question for a new MRTG server

[Greg.Volk at edwardjones.com]

> 
> Greg
> 
> This is the type of info I was looking for.  Right now on 
> my old PIII 800MHz system it takes ~ 12 minutes to poll 
> ~10,000 ports.  I also keep the cfgs broken up by network 
> device.
>

I'm glad I could help.
 
> BTW, that was 10,000 active ports, off hand if I included 
> all our ports, whether up or down, the number would probably 
> double.  This may actually occur because there is conversation 
> about turning on all ports on the Cat's, putting the unused 
> one in an unrouted LAN.  This would allow someone to move into 
> an office, connect system to wall jack, using DHCP they'd 
> end up with an IP in the private LAN, goto registration 
> website to get routable IP.  Once registered the VLAN info 
> would be updated on the switch within X minutes and voila 
> they'd be on the net.
> 

I would really like to hear from someone who is doing, or at
least attempted to do 10,000+ five minute targets on a recent,
multi-proc x86 platform. For as much as that 220R costs, I 
expect it to do everything and make me breakfast. But 
seriously, I could have bought three really sweet x86 systems 
with all kinds of bells and whistles, for the same money, and 
my dynamic graph generation would be a lot faster. Of course 
if the x86 doesn't have the requisite IO capability to deal 
with 18,000 targets every five minutes, then graph generation 
is a moot point.


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