[mrtg] cfgstoragemaker replacement

[DA Forsyth]

On 19 Apr 2008 , Nico Kadel-Garcia entreated about
 "Re: [mrtg] cfgstoragemaker replacement":

Nico, did you get my email with the download instructions for the 
beta?

> 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 (-:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> 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?
> >>     
> >
> > 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.
> 


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