[mrtg] cfgstoragemaker replacement

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

DA Forsyth wrote:
> On 18 Apr 2008 , Nico Kadel-Garcia entreated about
>  "Re: [mrtg] cfgstoragemaker replacement":
>
>   
>>> It is a shell/awk script combo, I don't do PERL (-:
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>> ME! ME, ME, ME, ME, ME! Getting something vaguely supported to phase
>> out cfgstoragemaker would be great! 
>>
>> I've lacked the time to get hrStorage vagaries worked out, and 
>> cfgstoragemaker broke when I upgraded to RHEL.
>>
>> Shell is fine, I'm actually better with shell.
>>     
>
> ok.  it does a snmpwalk to find the devices, then uses that info to 
> generate the CFG's.   I'll have a look at generalizing it more so 
> users don't have to edit awk scripts....
>
>   
>>> one question though:  at this time we are suffering blackouts every 2 
>>> days (2 hours long) and when a machine comes up it sometimes reports 
>>> the wrong (small) real memory size.  any ideas why?  (FreeBSD 6.2 at 
>>> the moment, will be 6.3 after Saturday, and 7.0 next week sometime)
>>>   
>>>       
>> Couldn't tell you. Is the *client* the problem, or the server?
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>
> I havn't figured it out yet because I'm regenerating the CFG's at 
> each boot but I'm not here to watch the boot and see what happens.
> hmmm. maybe I'll force the absmax[] setting very high and watch the 
> graphs for a bit to see when the size value changes.  it must be some 
> time after boot.
>   
Why not wait until 10 minutes after the boot? Let it get a couple of 
scans under its belt, first.