[mrtg] Re: Starting MRTG - There has to be a better way...

[Woodcock, Bradford]

Hi Eric,

I would agree with a previous note for the use of "Include" in a master
config file and the potential use of fork. Today I have a script which
builds each device config and then produces the master config
(w/Include's) to apply cron jobs to. The number of master config files
is a settable variable so I could easily have many different master
configs I can spread over the 5 minutes. However my technique predates
the fork option, so you may be better off with a single master include
config and fork.

And from an admin point of view it is good to keep separation of configs
for each device as you are doing today (but use master Include config
files). That way you can update individual device configs if you require
without rebuilding the whole config environment.

Cheers,
Woody...
http://www.inframon.org (infraMon - Network Infrastructure Monitor)

-----Original Message-----
From: Cornwell, Eric J. [mailto:EJCORNWELL at coopertire.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 7:25 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Starting MRTG - There has to be a better way...

Hello Everyone!

We currently monitor close to 100 devices with one Windows 2K PC.  Each
device has its own config file.  I have a bat file that runs and starts
each
config the following way.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
start /B wperl mrtg (RouterName).cfg  --logging MRTG_Routers.log
echo (RouterName) has been started.
sleep 7
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Each device is offset by 7 seconds to help spread everything out.  My
problem is that with 100 wperl.exe processes running they eat up all the
available memory.  Is there a better way to start MRTG than this or am I
just going to have to live with it?

Thanks!
Eric

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