[mrtg] Re: threshold alert every 2 hour, not every 5 minutes

[Dave Hardy]

Dan,

Make sure that the user running MRTG has read write permission to you Thres
directory and that the directives are set up in mrtg.cfg correctly.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Shipway" <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'Dan Wozniak'" <dwozniak at exs.esb.com>; <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: [mrtg] Re: threshold alert every 2 hour, not every 5 minutes


> >If the T1 maxes out for 30 minutes, I'd receive 6 email messages
> >notifying me of the threshold break.   This is unreasonable.  I want to
> >receive 1 email message only if the T1 maxes out for 2 hours
> >straight. Does anyone have any ideas on how I would go about
> >doing this?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Don't use MRTG for alerting; the Alert functionality in MRTG is very
basic.
> MRTG is designed for logging (making graphs) and the alerting is a later
> bolt-on.  Instead, install something like Nagios (this is what we use) and
> then query the stats either independently or using the Nagios check_mrtg
> plugin.  This will allow you to set up highly flexible alerting rules.
>
> Steve
>
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