[mrtg] Re: mrtg, extOutput.1, snmp

[VCI Help Desk]

    Yes, that is what I have. I forgot to mention that, sorry.

    Options[_]: growright, nopercent, absolute

      Bill



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Daniel J McDonald
To: Bill
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [mrtg] Re: mrtg, extOutput.1, snmp


On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 08:30 -0600, Bill wrote:
>     Thanks for the help. I figured out what it was. When I used a Perl
> script to telnet to the mail server and get the stats I had the Perl
script
> get the difference in the messages transferred over the past 5 minutes. So
I
> had the MaxBytes set to 1000. With this method the difference is not
> calculated so the MaxBytes was too low.
>
>     I also had the "Option: gauge" set so I had to remove that option.

You need to use option[target]: absolute

>
>     Also, I tried the debugging specified below but my MRTG says it
doesn't
> know that option. I have the MRTG that came with RedHat 9. it is version
> 2.9.17-13

That is immensely old.

To turn on debugging, edit the mrtg script and change the $DEBUG
variable - it's relatively close to the top.
>
>       Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: William Owen
> To: 'Bill'
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:17 PM
> Subject: RE: [mrtg] mrtg, extOutput.1, snmp
>
>
> Try running MRTG interactively and tack -debug=base,snpo,log onto the end
of
> the command.  This will show basic debugging along with SNMP debugging and
> RRDTool log debugging.  The output from this should allow you to pinpoint
> where you are having a failure.  If it isn't obvious from there, post the
> output to the list and you should get some help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill [mailto:admin at vci.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:38 PM
> To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject: [mrtg] mrtg, extOutput.1, snmp
>
>     I have mrtg monitoring my sendmail stats using a script that telnet's
to
> my mail servers and gets the stats. Today, I was trying to change the data
> collection method to use get the email stats using snmpd. I added an "ext"
> option to snmpd.conf and wrote a script to return the stats. When I do an
> snmpget from the monitoring server it works perfect. I changed the source
in
> my mrtg config file and run mrtg. It runs without any errors but my RRD
> files don't record the data. It's filled with NaN. After I wait about 30
> minutes the entire RRD file is still NaN.
>
>     I've done everything I know to do. I've never had this much difficulty
> getting something to graph and I can't figure out why this doesn't work.
> Anyone have any ideas.
>
>     Bill
>
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