[mrtg] Re: Threshold checking....what am I missing?

[Inaki Sanchez]

Hi Mike,

It is the same problem I had. With rrdtool, I haven't been able to get
threshold settings work. After many testing, I have given up and come to
the conclusion that, simply, they are silently ignored.

Regards,

--Inaki.

Mike Dean wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to setup threshold checking with MRTG.  I've read the docs,
> checked the archives and the web but haven't found an answer to my problem.
> I'm using MRTG version 2.9.18, RRD log format with routers2.cgi as the
> front-end.  This is running on a RedHat 7.2 system.
> 
> The problem is that the file is never created.  It's as if the Thresh????
> options are ignored.  I have tried using a percentage and just a number for
> the threshold trigger (the input and output rates are exceeding the values)
> however the test file is not created.
> 
> The scripts are simple test scripts that output basic information to a file
> (in the threshold directory) for testing.  Following is the mrtg-threshold
> script.  If I run the script from the prompt (logged in as the user that
> runs the MRTG cron jobs), the file is created correctly.  The script that
> runs MRTG also runs without errors.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Mike
> 
> The test configuration looks like this (note that the data collection and
> graphing works fine):
> 
> ThreshDir: /var/mrtg/threshold

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